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paintpot

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From paint + pot.

noun paintpots · paint pot · paint-pot

  1. A pot for holding paint. Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.
  2. dated A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image. […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.

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"paintpot." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/paintpot. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{paintpot_2026,
  title = {paintpot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/paintpot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}