Earthen
['ɜːθ(ə)n] or ['ɝθn]
Definition
(a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
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Examples
- Scattered over the country one still finds isolated charcoal kilns, crude earthen receptacles, in which wood thus deprived of air was allowed to smolder and form charcoal. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If you had an earthen pan and put into it 1?lb. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A student can make in the laboratory sufficient charcoal for art lessons by heating in an earthen vessel wood buried in sand. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Fig. 1 shows the workman pouring an earthen ladle of molten metal into the molds in which the sole plates are cast. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The two are intimately mixed in an earthen vessel, kneaded and flattened, shaped and polished. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- At length as darkness settled upon the jungle the apes commenced to bestir themselves, and soon they formed a great circle about the earthen drum. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He started to make earthen vessels without knowing how other men had made them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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