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Pot-walloper

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Pot´-wal`lop`er
n.1.A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.
2.One who cleans pots; a scullion.


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