Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HOTCH'POT, n. [Fr. hochepot, from hocher, to shake, and probably pot, a pot or dish.]

1. Properly, a mingled mass; a mixture of ingredients. Bacon. Camden.
2. In law, a mixing of lands. Thus lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter, shall, after the death of the ancestor, be blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then be divided in equal portions to all the daughters. Blackstone.