A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.

A versatile open-topped vessel used for various purposes such as storing food, brewing or serving drinks, holding soil for plants, as a chamber for urination and defecation, a crucible, a trap for catching seafood, an extension of a flue, a cask for draining sugar, or a cup for drinking liquor.

(archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.

A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.

(slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.

(historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.

(historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.

(rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.

(UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.

(slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.

(slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.

(chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.

(historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

(slang, uncountable) Marijuana.

(slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

(roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.

To put (something) into a pot.

To preserve by bottling or canning.

(snooker, pool, billiards) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

(snooker, pool, billiards) To be capable of being potted.

(transitive) To shoot with a firearm.

(intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.

(transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.

(Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.

(obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.

(transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.

(transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

(chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.

(rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).

(slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.