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try pot en · NOUN

Etymology

From try (“to extract oil from whale blubber”) + pot.

Meanings

1. A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), from pinnipeds (such as walruses and seals), and (historically, to a lesser extent) from penguins.
   • Holonym: tryworks
   • Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil. 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 183:

Forms

Translations (1)

mi taraipāta (large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber and to extract oil from penguins)