Ghost in "ghost pot"
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Also known as a derelict crab trap, a ghost pot is a crab pot that has lost its float and cannot be recovered by its owner.
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What does “ghost” in “ghost pot” mean? None of the definitions below seem to fit.
Definition of ghost
1 : the seat of life or intelligence : https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soul give up the ghost
2 : a disembodied soul especially : the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3 : https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spirit, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon
4a : a faint shadowy trace a ghost of a smile
b : the least bit not a ghost of a chance
5 : a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused especially by reflection
6 : one who https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghostwrite
7 : a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
Top answer
I don't know the particular expression, but I imagine it's using the sense of being disembodied; the float that makes it function is now lost, so the pot exists but is unable to function properly. It is therefore a pot without purpose or, by extension, 'life'.
- I don't know the particular expression, but I imagine it's using the sense of being disembodied; the float that makes it function is now lost, so the pot exists but is unable to function properly.
- It is therefore a pot without purpose or, by extension, 'life'.
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I don't know the particular expression, but I imagine it's using the sense of being disembodied; the float that makes it function is now lost, so the pot exists but is unable to function properly. It is therefore a pot without purpose or, by extension, 'life'.
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