kaolin or other whitish or light-coloured clay used for making earthenware or porcelain.

a type of clay used chiefly in the manufacture of earthenware bottles.

Clay suitable for use in the manufacture of porcelain; esp. china clay, kaolin. Also figurative (sometimes in echoes of quot. 1690). Cf. porcelain…

clay of a bluish colour; esp. (a) a kind of ball clay used to make earthenware; (b) = blue ground n. at compounds 1d.

(See quots.)

A fine white clay produced by the decomposition of feldspar, used in the manufacture of porcelain; first employed by the Chinese, but subsequently…

Probably: a high quality clay used for fine pottery. Obsolete. rare.

(See quots.)

The clay of which ‘saggars’ are made. Also saggar-clay.

a very adhesive, plastic clay; spec. a fine-textured kaolinitic clay, found in south-western England and in other parts of the world, which is used…

a clay obtained from the decomposition of Cornish granite, used in making earthenware.

A fine white potter's clay, called also kaolin, derived from the felspar of disintegrated granitic rocks, employed in the manufacture of china or…

a type of rich clay found near Poole in Dorset, used for pottery.

(see quot.).

Clay from which porcelain is made.

(see quot.).