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pottery
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Word definitions for pottery in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having to do with pottery. n. 1 Fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed 2 (context countable English) A potter's shop or workshop, where pottery is made 3 The potter's craft or art: making vessels from clay
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE early ▪ In addition, a post-processual interpretation of characterised early medieval pottery is presented. ▪ Aside from the pottery itself, the evidence for the manufacture of early Anglo-Saxon pottery is sparse. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln [syn: clayware ] the craft of making earthenware a workshop where clayware is made
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "a potter's workshop," from Old French poterie (13c.), from potier (see potter (n.)). Attested from 1727 as "the potter's art;" from 1785 as "potteryware."
Usage examples of pottery.
To her mind Zephyr spent far too much time going over old texts and bits of pottery, hiking up to caves that only contained paintings instead of allosaur bones.
This pleased rupert but then he had found out she was renting a small bedsit in Vauxhall, rammed to the ceiling with pottery turtles, leatherette footstools and flowery, applique table mats, where she would sneak off as if visiting a lover and would sit for hours, rocking backwards and forwards stroking a ceramic clown amidst a mountain of knick-knacks.
An incised ornament of this character, possibly derived from basketry by copying the twisted fillets or their impressions in the clay, is very common on the pottery of the mounds of the Mississippi Valley, and its variants form a most interesting study.
Cases filled with arrowheads and stone tools, scraps of pottery and basketry stood under placards describing the prehistory of the county.
Since there was nothing shameful in open lovemaking, Locusta and I were indulging in a bit of it when there was a sudden fearful crash of pottery and metal.
A short time later, Rurik was standing at a low chest, splashing water onto his face from a pottery bowl, after having just shaved, when Maire came storming back into the bedchamber without knocking.
Reached by a connecting door, which was made of steel and slid open, the front shop proved quite attractive, as it contained many pieces of fine pottery, Oriental carvings, ornate metalware, music boxes and cabinets of all sizes from huge mahogany chests down to ivory jewel cases.
And that glimpse of Porr, the broken piece of early pottery I had discarded, nothing had any significance now, except this ghostly congregation of elephants.
Marina a blue-rimmed pottery bowl full of hot oat porridge, which Marina regarded with resignation, then garnished with sugar and cream and dug into so as to get rid of it as soon as possible.
He maintains then that such a prothesis vase was the first sepulchral monument, that this was later replaced by a vase of the same description in marble, of course on account of the fragile nature of pottery.
Now the city was famed for recidivist Communism and thuggish politics, for the Semtex explosives manufactured on its outskirts, for dispirited pottery and rudimentary wine.
A pottery ewer of water and a washbasin rested on a small stand by the bed.
The shallop came alongside at nightfall with the rest of the explorers--the tide being out--bringing a lot of Indian things, baskets, pottery, wicker-ware, etc.
For kiln-fired pottery, which first appears in the fifth millennium BC in the Near East, combined TL-OSL can date a sherd to within a few hundred years if the conditions are right.
She bent back to her bag and finally pulled out a handful of little stoppered pottery bottles.