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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pots

A Stock Exchange term, signifying the “North Staffordshire Railway stock.” Of course, the word means “the potteries” (See Stock Exchange Slang.)

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