According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
POXES
Noun
poxes
plural of pox
Anagrams
• expos
Source: Wiktionary
POX
Pox, n. Etym: [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.)
Definition: Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]
Definition: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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