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Tarpit vs Tarpot - What's the difference?

tarpit | tarpot |

As nouns the difference between tarpit and tarpot

is that tarpit is a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a lake of asphalt while tarpot is a pot used for carrying tar.

tarpit

English

(wikipedia tarpit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a lake of asphalt

    • Derived terms

    * Turing tarpit

    tarpot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pot used for carrying tar.
  • * 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
    • “Oh, that’s it,” said Oak, jumping up, and dimissing for the present his thoughts on poor Fanny. “You are a good boy to run and tell me, Cain, and you shall smell a large plum pudding some day as a treat. But, before we go, Cainy, bring the tarpot , and we’ll mark this lot and have done with ’em.”
  • * 1964 , Robert Carse, The seafarers: a history of maritime America, 1620-1820
    • Tarpots bubbled over driftwood fires where men calked the seams of smacks and shallops and patched their dugout canoes.