FROM STRONG’S GREEK DICTIONARY (1890)

Strong’s Greek Dictionary (1890) — public domain, printed whole.

xestes ξέστης — xes'-tace — as if from xeo (properly, to smooth; by implication, (of friction) to boil or heat); a vessel (as fashioned or for cooking) (or perhaps by corruption from the Latin sextarius, the sixth of a modius, i.e. about a pint), i.e. (specially), a measure for liquids or solids, (by analogy, a pitcher):--pot.