单词 | pot-making |
释义 | pot-makingn. The making or manufacture of pots or pottery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [noun] potter craft?c1450 pottery1601 pot-makinga1649 potting1743 ceramic1859 a1649 G. Abbott Brief Notes Psalms (1651) lxxxi. 371 Doing base offices of brick-clamping, and pot-making in kills & furnaces. 1683 J. Phillips tr. G.-J. Grelot Late Voy. Constantinople 35 The Trade of the Town consists in Silks, Cottons, Wooll, Linnen, Fruits, Pot-making, Glass-houses, and other Commodities, which render it a place of great Traffick. 1726 E. Carter Artificer's Looking-glass 39 I was put an Apprentice to the ancient and laudable Calling of Pot-Making, in that Branch distinguish'd by the Name of Painter of Earthen-Ware. 1767 J. Wedgwood Let. 26 July in Sel. Lett. (1965) 58 I..am sorry to find the heat..was much more intense than can be made use of for Pottmaking. 1867 Sci. Amer. 27 July 50/3 Were it not for the intelligent discrimination manifested by a glass manufacturer,..the utility of Missouri clay for pot making would be to this day a mooted point. 1872 D. Hazlewood Feejeean & Eng. Dict. 84 in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (1935) 221 Munu, in pot making, signifies to mix sand with the pot earth. 1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters 141 We think that they had picked up the art of agriculture, weaving and pot-making, etc. 1997 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 16 Feb. e1 She gives much of the credit for winning to her ceramics instructor,..who helped instill in her a love of potmaking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1649 |
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