gallipot

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There was an old gallipot or two, and there was a broken bottle or so, and there were some broken boxes for seats. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

Pour some into small boxes for present use, and the remainder into a gallipot tied down with a bladder.—Another.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

If a speck of dirt be found on the deck, or a gallipot or phial out of its place, woe betide the loblolly-boy, the assistant-surgeon's assistant, and the constant attendant upon the hospital.

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil

The old chemist looked up over his spectacles, held for an instant a gallipot suspended between finger and thumb, and set it down with nice judgment.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Only at the bottom of the small gallipot which the missionary had given him in Khartûm there lay a little white powder which would scarcely suffice for whitening the tip of a finger.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk