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Definition of Posnet
1. n. A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.
Definition of Posnet
1. Noun. (obsolete) A little basin; a porringer; a skillet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Posnet
1. a small cooking pot [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Posnet
Literary usage of Posnet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory (1913)
"... II " THE NATION" ON " BLANCO posnet" We have often spoken in these columns of
the condition of the British drama and the various ways of mending it. ..."
2. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography by Gregory, Augusta Gregory (1913)
"... II " THE NATION" ON " BLANCO posnet" We have often spoken in these columns of
the condition of the British drama and the various ways of mending it. ..."
3. Nights at the Play by Henry Mackinnon Walbrook (1911)
"BERNARD SHAW'S play, " The Showing-up of Blanco posnet," to which the Lord
Chamberlain refused the right of public performance, was acted at the Aldwych ..."
4. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1921)
"... THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO posnet A play in one act. First produced in 1909.
(Censored in England. ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... them in a posnet, and strain them through a canvas cloth, and ao keep it for
your use. noise with sword and buckler, to appal antagonists. ..."
6. The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)
"The posnet, made either of iron or of tin, and placed on a brander, is an utensil
common in every ... In Cole's Dict. posnet is called a great kettle. ..."
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