Pot-wallopers (i.e. Pot-boilers), a popular name given prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 to a class of electors in a borough who claimed the right to vote on the ground of boiling a pot within its limits for six months.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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