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Meaning of try pot | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans, pinnipeds and also to extract oil from penguins.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

try square try-hard try-miter square try-off try-on try-out