Post-mortem, subs. (Cambridge).—The examination after failure.
1844. Puck, 13. And now tho’ I’ve passed the POST-MORTEM at last.
Post-past, subs. (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—Dessert: at St. Omers.
1882. Stonyhurst Mag., i. 112. The dessert called POST-PAST was always the best sort of apples or pears, and biscuits, or else walnuts.
Post te, phr. (Charterhouse).—The most useful (says Tod) of all the old Charterhouse expressions. For example, POST TE MATH. EX. = “Will you have the kindness to permit me to glance over your mathematical exercise?” Or one can give a POST TE of anything; e.g. to give a friend a POST TE of a book is to give him the right of its perusal when you have done with it. The word is also used in a subtle and sarcastic sense; e.g. POST TE hat or POST TE chum signifies disapproval of the hat or friend of which or whom the remark was made.
Pot, subs. (Winchester).—A canal lock. Whence POT-CAD = a workman at the saw-mills; POT-GATES = lock-gates; POT-HOUSER = a jump into the canal from the roof of a house called POT-HOUSE.
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester (1866), 226. POT—A canal lock; the one just under Hills was generally meant when the word was used.
Pot-house (The), subs. (Cambridge).—St. Peter’s College: formerly Peterhouse.
1891. Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 85. He asked me what it was.... I hadn’t a notion, so I made a shot and said “POT-HOUSE.” He said, “I suppose you mean St. Peter’s College.”
Potted-fug, subs. (Rugby).—Potted-meat.