pot-wal|lop|er

pot-wal|lop|er
pot-wal|lop|er «POT WOL uh puhr», noun.
(formerly in some British boroughs) a man who qualified as a voter by having a separate fireplace over which his own pots boiled.
[alteration of earlier pot-waller < pot1 + waller < wall to boil, Old English weallan; influenced by dialectal wallop boil hard]

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  • Pot-walloper — Pot wal lop*er, n. 1. A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months. [1913 Webster] 2. One who… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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