pot-hole

Noun

 * 1) * 1879, Leverett T. Harper, Sioux Falls, Dakota, patent 234,683 for a Hay-Burner Attachment for Stoves, published in 1880 in the Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office, page 827:
 * It is designed that the body part b shall be of suitable diameter to fit reasonably close into the pot-hole, and the flange b&apos;&apos; is intended to rest upon the stove-top;
 * 1) * 1918 May 16, Archie O. Strickland, of Winfield, Kansas, patent 1,298,819 for a Fuel-Magazine, serial number 234,999, published in 1919 in the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
 * In an attachment for a stove which has in its top a double pot-hole having straight sides and semicircular ends, said top having a depressed lid supporting shoulder surrounding said double pot-hole;
 * In an attachment for a stove which has in its top a double pot-hole having straight sides and semicircular ends, said top having a depressed lid supporting shoulder surrounding said double pot-hole;