Pot-walloper Definition

pätwäləpər

noun

A man considered a householder by virtue of owning a hearth, and therefore qualified to vote.

Webster's New World

(historical) A voter in certain English boroughs, where, before the passage of the Reform Act 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

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(US, slang, dated) One who cleans pots; a scullion.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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