The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blunger \Blun"ger\, n. [Corrupted from plunger.]
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi?ing the clay
in potteries; a plunger.
--Tomlinson.
Wiktionary
n. (context ceramics English) the apparatus used for blunge (mixing clay with water to make pottery)
Wikipedia
A blunger is a machine commonly used in the pottery industry for mixing clay and water. A blunger usually consists of a round or octagonal tank with a mixer. Clay is added to the water-filled blunger and then mixed into a slurry, which is also called slip. This slip can be then sieved and magnetted as it is emptied from the blunger.
In the potbanks around Stoke-on-Trent the blunger was fed by the "sliphouse blunger charger" who was often assisted by the "sliphouse blunger charger's mate". Different types and amounts of clay and marl had to be shovelled in manually to be mixed with water.
Blungers are often used in the kaolin mining industry to mix certain grades of kaolin clay with water.
Category:Pottery
Usage examples of "blunger".
Qwilleran asked intelligent questions about the blunger, pug mill, and filter press, meanwhile keeping an eye on Koko and a firm hand on the leash.
Therefore we have on the trucks that carry the clay between the bins and the blungers what we call charging-scales, which weigh automatically each ingredient in the compound without betraying it to the loader.