beanpot

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bean +‎ pot

Noun[edit]

beanpot (plural beanpots)

  1. A pot for cooking or serving beans.
    • 1957, House and Garden, volume 111:
      Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.
    • 1982, Betty Jane Morison, Champagne and a Gardener:
      There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork.