What is "stoneware"

Usage examples of "stoneware".

Like a few pebbles rattling down into a stoneware bowl, they descended into a rocky crater, maculated with schlock-heaps and filled with a perpetual miasma of wood-smoke.

On the table where Lady Appleton worked sat all manner of equipment for distillation -- alembic, pelican, matrass -- as well as empty jars, pots, and other vessels made of stoneware, ceramic, glass, horn, pewter, and iron.

This being the end of summer but not yet harvest time, the pantry shelves were nowhere near the height of what I hoped would be their autumn bounty, but still there were cheeses on the shelf, a huge stoneware crock of salted fish on the floor, and sacks of flour, corn, rice, beans, barley, and oatmeal.

I let her handle the sherd of the day, a nice piece of eighteenth-century Rhenish stoneware with dark blue and purple glaze.

The Master Bonesetter took cloths from his pack to bind the bleeding places, and Lioncelle produced a stoneware flask of plum brandy.

Lamps flickered with a dandelion light, describing various implements: copper pans, stoneware jarsgray hens and gotches, skeins of thyme and lemongrass, garlic, hams, onions, turnips, and cheeses hanging like comestible jewelry from blackened roof beams.

Sandra Kay plucked three tall stoneware mugs from the display shelves, wiped out any dust with paper towels, and we drank thirstily.

Karen put the kettle on and took the box of teabags from the shelf over the stove, then looked around for her favorite stoneware mug.

The man behind the bar nodded as he scooped clabbered milk from a stoneware jug under the bar.

She covered the table with a pale peach cloth and lay a place setting of the Dansk stoneware and cutlery she used for meat dishes.

There were groceries, dry goods, hardwares, stonewares, earthenwares, cups and saucers, plates, knives and forks, boots and shoes, coffee, tea, sugar, molasses, butter, gunpowder, tobacco, with other articles too numerous to mention, including the inevitable whiskey, which nearly everybody except Abraham considered indispensable.

Our genial host scuttled out of the kitchen area with a tray that bore a stone pitcher beaded with condensation, two handsome stoneware drinking cups, and a small bowl heaped with wrinkled black olives.

On the table lay the sparse objects which the District Attorney was offering: the bullet from Tommy's skull, a stoneware jug containing corn whisky.

This being the end of summer but not yet harvest time, the Pantry shelves were nowhere near the height of what I hoped would be their autumn bounty, but still there were cheeses on the shelf, a huge stoneware crock of salted fish oil the floor, and sacks of flour, corn, rice, beans, barley, and oatmeal.

Still in his role as an assistant, he began foddering a lanky horse who pulled the cart of stoneware samples.