Meaning of lobster pot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.
2. Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”).
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in.

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Examples

“As pikemen were required to engage⟳ the enemy closely, they frequently wore steel helmets and a cuirass that is both armored breast and back plates. The helmets, or pots or lobster pots, were slightly angular round helmet[s] with […]”

“Craftsmen churned out cheap helmets – lobster pots with hammered steel neckguards rather than the fancy segmented type⟳ the Roundheads wore. Plain morions with riveted rims, none of your apprentice piece Spanish combs.”

“... should have⟳ been tucked behind his driver's license⟳—and Larry saw⟳ the photograph—Marie and Sean in the kitchen wearing lobster pots for helmets and wielding frying pans for rapiers—but his driver's license⟳ appeared to be missing.”

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