Crockery
['krɒk(ə)rɪ] or ['krɑkəri]
Definition
(noun.) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively.
Inputed by Glenda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds.
Inputed by Deborah
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Earthen-ware.
Checker: Louie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of having an abundance of nice, clean crockery, denotes that you will be a tidy and economical housekeeper. To be in a crockery store, indicates, if you are a merchant or business man, that you will look well to the details of your business and thereby experience profit. To a young woman, this dream denotes that she will marry a sturdy and upright man. An untidy store, with empty shelves, implies loss.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- As brittle as crockery, sir, and as old as the church, if not older. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Coal-dust, vegetable-dust, bone-dust, crockery dust, rough dust and sifted dust,--all manner of Dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The hill might have been the bottom of the sea, once, and been lifted up, with its oyster-beds, by an earthquake--but, then, how about the crockery? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A similar process employed in the distribution of the crockery. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Cautiously along the path that was bordered by fragments of crockery set in ashes, the two stole after him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The upshot of which, was, to smash this witness like a crockery vessel, and shiver his part of the case to useless lumber. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It saved time to do these things just when you thought of them, and Lydgate hated ugly crockery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Honest Jemima had all the bills, and the washing, and the mending, and the puddings, and the plate and crockery, and the servants to superintend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- No; only gauze, crockery, and pink blossom--a sample of earthly illusions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Thaddeus