A small pot or container, often double-walled and heated, used to keep glue warm and liquid while working.
Compound of 'glue' plus 'pot' (from Old English 'pott'), a simple descriptive term for the vessel traditionally used to heat and store glue.
The gluepot was such a fixture in carpentry shops and schools that 'gluepot' became British slang for something old-fashioned or obsolete, because it literally became a relic as modern synthetic glues no longer needed heating.
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