Earthenware
['ɜːθ(ə)nweə] or ['ɝθnwɛr]
Definition
(n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- As to Pottery:--Could we only know who among the peoples of the earth first discovered, used, or invented fire, we might know who were the first makers of baked earthenware. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A patent was granted last year for a mode of coating earthenware vessels with copper or iron by electro-chemical deposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- To improve such earthenware and to best decorate it, are the objects around which modern inventions have mostly clustered. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was an earthenware-bottle factory. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They have been kept since in an earthenware jar; they have, therefore, been made more than nine months. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An earthenware jar, _a_, serves to hold the solution of copper, which should be maintained in a saturated state by the addition of crystals of the salt. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He also had earthenware drums across which skins were stretched; perhaps also he made drums by stretching skins over hollow tree stems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earthenware and soapstone stoves of continental Europe were used long before the present century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You poor little earthenware pipkin, you want to swim down the stream along with the great copper kettles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Before their time all earthenware pottery was what is now called soft pottery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The meal over, the party were free to run and play in the meadows; a few stayed to help the farmer's wife to put away her earthenware. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A small cupboard held a diminutive but commodious set of earthenware. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It involved storing a great multitude of earthenware tablets in huge earthenware jars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They built of brick, they made pottery and earthenware images, and they drew and presently wrote upon thin tile-like cakes of clay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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