paintpot

English

Etymology

paint +‎ pot

Noun

paintpot (plural paintpots)

  1. A pot for holding paint.
    • 1885, The Methodist New Connexion Magazine and Evangelical Repository (page 80)
      Mr. Ruskin, in a famous libel case, said that a man had no right to throw a paintpot at a canvas and call it a picture.
    • 1961, Randolph Goodman, Drama on Stage (page 424)
      A fifth man is busied with paintpot and brush. He is kneeling on the ground, painting a strip of canvas […]
  2. (dated, television) A lever on a telecine machine that controls the range of colors in an image.
    • 2013, Gerald Millerson, Lighting for TV and Film (page 390)
      […] vertical joystick or 'paintpot' may be used, that will pivot hemispherically to any degree within a color circle.

Alternative forms

References
  • (in television): 1976, Brian Armstrong, The Glossary of TV Terms (page 68)
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