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Webster 1913 Edition
Pottery
1.
The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.
2.
The place where earthen vessels are made.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pottery
POT'TERY
,Noun.
1.
The place where earthen vessels are manufactured.Definition 2024
pottery
pottery
English
Noun
pottery (usually uncountable, plural potteries)
- Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
- The shelves were lined with pottery of all shapes and sizes.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
- (countable) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made
- I visited the old potteries and saw the pots being made.
- The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay
- Bernard Leach was skilled at pottery.
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fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed
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workshop where pottery is made
practise or craft of making pottery
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