| 单词 | potter's earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotter's earth potter's earth n. = potter's clay n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery eartha1350 potter's clay?a1425 potter's earth1440 pot earth?a1450 argil1530 pot clay1674 throwing clay1686 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 411 Pottarys erthe, argilla. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 257 The pit within the grounde hauing the sides walled with potters earth. 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 1 Where Clays are digged (as Fullers earth, Potters earth, etc.) we call them Pits. 1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iii. 99 Make an Utensil of fine Potters Earth. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 100 Instead of porcelain, they are potter's earth, clay, or mud. 1866 L. D. Stickney Past, Present & Future 388 Alumina is mostly contained in the compound mass called potter's earth or clay; alumina is the earth next to silica, found most frequently and in great abundance in soils. 1972 Britannia 3 146 These [objects] were made..on a potter's wheel, and of potter's earth. < as lemmas |
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