- often used to describe a deep hole or water-filled chasm in a river, a pot can also be a pool in rocks along the shoreline. The former type is often of particular relevance to anglers, as in William Sorley Brown's Selkirk tale, The Ne'er-do-Weel (1909):
At the village of Ettrickbridge... there is a famed salmon pool or 'pot' known as the Loup.
There are many examples of the word in Old Scots, often in the context of changes in the condition of important rivers. The Memorialls of the Trubles in Scotland and in England (c.1650) describes the drying up of the pot of Brechin and notes that ane pot of the water of Brechin, callit Southesk, becam suddantlie dry.