stoneware
(ˈstəʊnwɛə(r))
(Also with hyphen, or as two words.)
A hard dense kind of pottery ware, made from very siliceous clay, or a mixture of clay with a considerable amount of flint or sand.
| 1683 Digby's Chym. Secr. ii. 207 Take an Earthen Pan of Stone-ware. 1747 Berkeley Tar-water in Plague Wks. III. 487, I use tar-water made in stone ware or earthen very well glazed. 1827 Faraday Chem. Manip. xv. (1842) 373 Bottles..on sand, placed in a bowl or cup of common stone ware. 1880 Janvier Pract. Keramics 136 Very fine stonewares, mostly iron-body, are made in Japan and China. |
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| 1783 J. Tait's Directory Glasgow (1872) 54 Oliphant Francis, stone ware dealer, King's street. 1807 T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 302 The paper, while still moist, is applied to the stoneware biscuit and pressed upon it. 1829 S. Shaw Staffordsh. Potteries 173 His beautiful and excellent Stone Ware Pottery. 1833 N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 39 A black stone-ware teapot..will radiate away 100 degrees of its heat in the same time that a pot of polished metal will radiate only 12 degrees. 1854 Ronalds & Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 229 The smoke and hot gases are caused to circulate in an extensive series of metallic or stoneware flues. 1884 C. T. Davis Bricks, Tiles, etc. (1889) 308 The interval between the South Amboy fire-clay bed and the stoneware clay bed. |