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Webster 1828 Edition


Hotchpot

HOTCH'POT

, n.
1.
Properly, a mingled mass; a mixture of ingredients.
2.
In law, a mixing of lands. Thus lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter, shall, after the death of the ancestor, be blended with the lands descending to her and then be divided in equal portions to all the daughters.