subs. phr. (old).—A toper; a tippler; a LUSHINGTON (q.v.). [Beer mugs were called BLACK-POTS; also BLACK-JACKS.]
1594. GREENE, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, v. 122. I’ll be Prince of Wales over all the BLACK-POTS in Oxford.
1636. HEYWOOD, Love’s Mistress, II. Jugg, what’s she but sister to a BLACK-POT.
1818. SCOTT, The Heart of Mid-lothian, xxxii. A whole whiskin, or BLACK-POT, of sufficient double ale.
