try pot noun1 •A large pot used to remove and render the oil from blubber obtained from cetaceans (such as whales and dolphins), from pinnipeds (such as walruses and seals), and (historically, to a lesser extent) from penguins.Along Salamanca Wharf […] was a reminder of what first made the early colony of Tasmania: a large black whaler's trypot, used to boil stripped whale blubber so as to produce oil. — 2020 formstry pots · try-pots