Definition of Potting

1. n. Tippling.

Definition of Potting

1. Verb. (present participle of pot#Verb pot) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Potting

1. pot [v] - See also: pot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potting

potteresses
potteries
pottering
pottering about
pottering around
potteringly
potters
potters about
potters around
pottery
pottier
potties
pottiest
pottiness
pottinesses
potting (current term)
pottle
pottles
potto
pottos
potts
pottsite
potty
potty-mouthed
potty-trained
potty-training
potty chair
potty humor
potty mouth
potty mouths

Literary usage of Potting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant Propagation: Greenhouse and Nursery Practice by Maurice Grenville Kains (1916)
"potting soil should be light and friable so as to handle easily, drain readily and withstand ... potting, placing of rooted plants in flower pots. FIG. ..."

2. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical by Mary Foote Henderson (1889)
"IN England, potting is an every-day ... Put into a dish, and place in the oven half an hour; afterward pack it in potting- pots or little stone jars, ..."

3. The American Flower Garden Companion by Edward Sayers (1838)
"[THE following directions for potting green-house plants are equally ... Having the soil prepared, the potting may be commenced by carefully turning the ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"A good test of the proper amount of moisture in soil for potting is when it molds in the hand only under strong pressure. Another essential, in case old ..."

5. The Unheated Greenhouse by K. L. Davidson (1907)
"SUMMER QUARTERS SOME sort of potting-shed is essential to the gardener's ... The very best preparation that can be made for potting-soil is to form a little ..."

6. The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of by Edwin Atlee Barber (1901)
"... CHAPTER V. EARLY potting IN AMERICA. THE potter's art was probably first practised in this country by the earlier emigrants in Virginia. ..."

7. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid by Georg Lunge (1903)
"This is styled " potting/' In the second class the nitric acid is made in a liquid form in special apparatus, and introduced as such into the chambers. ..."

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