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glost Ceramics.|glɒst|
[app. a dialectal alteration of gloss n.2 (sense 3).]
The lead glaze used for pottery. In glost-fireman, the man who attends to a glost-oven (= † gloss-fireman); glost-oven, the oven in which glazed ware is fired (= glaze-oven, † gloss-oven); glost-placer, the operative who applies the glost.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Glost-Oven. 1882W. Worc. Gloss., Glost-oven. 1885Instr. to Census Clerks xxi. §4 (China, Porcelain Manufacture) Glost Placer, Fireman. 1899Rep. Commission in Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 6/2 That young persons and women should be excluded from employment as..glost placers in factories where lead glaze is used. |