gallipot noun2 •A small, glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding medicine and ointment.VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of tincture, high rose tincture. — 1625 •(no longer used) Someone who uses such pots; an apothecary.‘We are physicians' gallipots. Don't you want the sick healed?’ — 1980 formsgallipots