lobster pot

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lobster pot

noun lobster pots · lobsterpot

A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting.
Similar: lobster trap
Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”). As pikemen were required to engage the enemy closely, they frequently wore steel helmets and a cuirass that is both armored breast and back plates. The helmets, or pots or lobster pots, were slightly angular round helmet[s] with […]
Similar: lobster-tailed pot
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lobster, pot: a pot for cooking a lobster in. ... should have been tucked behind his driver's license—and Larry saw the photograph—Marie and Sean in the kitchen wearing lobster pots for helmets and wielding frying pans for rapiers—but his driver's license appeared to be missing.

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noun a trap used to catch lobsters

Español	nasa
Français	nasse, casier à homard
Deutsch	Hummerfalle
Italiano	nassa

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@misc{lobster_pot_2026,
  title = {lobster pot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lobster%20pot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}