Moby-Dick: Tar-pot
Tar-pot
- the small pot held when tarring down the stays (various strong ropes for steadying masts)
The word tar-pot appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 8 > Sentence 5:
And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into the tar-pot, you have been lording it as a country schoolmaster, making the tallest boys stand in awe of you.
Concordance for the word tar-pot from Moby-Dick.
