A pot capable of containing the measure of a quart.
1422–3. Abingdon Acc. (1892), 94. Item j quartpot.
1463. Bury Wills (Camden), 23. A quart pot of pewter.
1550. Crowley, Epigr., 363. Go fyll me thys quarte pot.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. x. 16. Many a time … it hath seru’d me insteede of a quart pot to drinke in.
1613. Wither, Abuses Stript, I. v. 240. Sometime in reuenge the quart-pot flies.
1711. Steele, Spect., No. 22, ¶ 5. I came in with a Tub about me, that Tub hung with Quart-pots.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, xxv. A quart-pot … filled with gin and water.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 47. Quartpots are for muddier liquor than nectar.
b. attrib., as quart-pot tea, Austral. (see quot. 1885).
1878. Mrs. H. Jones, Long Years in Australia, 87. Taking a long draught of the quart-pot tea.
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, Advance Austral., 111. ‘Quart-pot tea,’ as tea made in the Bush is always called…. A tin quart of water is set down by the fire, and when it is boiling hard a handful of tea is thrown in.
