Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POT, v.t.

1. To preserve seasoned in pots; as, potted fowl and fish. – Dryden.
2. To inclose or cover in pots of earth. – Mortimer.
3. To put in casks for draining; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the melasses percolates through the spungy stalk of a plantain leaf. – Edward's W. Indies.