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honey-pot 
n. Obs. See 1835 quote.
- 1835 Well, every now and then, when a feller goes to look for his horse--he sees his tail a sticking out on eend, from one of these honey pots, and wavin like a head of broom corn. . . . Most of them are dyke marshes have what they call "honey pots" in them, that is, a deep hole all full of squash, where you cant find no bottom.
- 1860 (1956) We clambered or stumbled over a chaos of trees six thousand years old, which the Canadians call a "renversi," and through various bottomless swamps and "honeypots". . . .
- 1835 Well, every now and then, when a feller goes to look for his horse--he sees his tail a sticking out on eend, from one of these honey pots, and wavin like a head of broom corn. . . . Most of them are dyke marshes have what they call "honey pots" in them, that is, a deep hole all full of squash, where you cant find no bottom.