What is "seggar"

Usage examples of "seggar".

Saturday afternoon, and we were sitting on a pile of empty seggars against the door of my furnace-room, waiting till the men should all have cleared out of the yard.

The pottery, enclosed in seggars, stands round inside on shelves, and has to be turned from time to time while the firing is going on.

To turn these seggars, test the heat, and keep the fires up, was my work at the period of which I am now telling you, Major.

This proved that the seggars might at once go into ovens One and Two, but that number Three had been overheated, and must be allowed to go on cooling for an hour or two longer.

All this seemed likely enough, so I dismissed the matter from my mind, and passed the rest of the night in attending to the seggars, adding fresh fuel from time to time to the furnaces of the first and second ovens, and now and then taking a turn through the yards.

As for number Three, it kept up its heat to such a degree that it was almost day before I dared trust the seggars to go in it.

To turn the seggars, and add fuel to the two first furnaces, was my first work.