Brewer's: Gallipot

(g hard) means a glazed pot, as galletyles (3 syl.) means glazed tiles. (Dutch, gleipot, glazed pot.) In farce and jest it forms a by-name for an apothecary.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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