Prattn.1
/prat/, U.S. /præt/ Engineering.
attributive. In bridge construction: designating a type of truss consisting of both vertical and diagonal elements, the latter (except for those at either end) all slanting downward towards the centre of the truss. Esp. in Pratt truss.
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pile1440
saddle1831
Pratt1868
1857 Appleton's Cycl. Drawing 237 We instance figs. 52 and 53, as illustrative of two systems of bridge trussing, the one being an elevation of Howe's bridge Truss, the other of Pratt's.]
1868 Sci. Amer. 9 Dec. 371/2 The superstructure is of iron, on the Pratt truss principle.
1923 Lima (Ohio) News 13 Dec. 1/7 The bridge was a single span, known as a Pratt truss, the upper part being of iron and steel, resting on stone abuttments.
1978 J. E. Gordon Structures xi. 234 The Pratt or the Howe truss will work equally well upside-down.
2003 G. Biddle Britain's Hist. Railway Buildings 224/1 The girders are carried on a pair of Pratt trusses curved upwards from each end to a central pylon.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Prattn.2
/prat/, U.S. /præt/ attributive. Of, relating to, or designating a type of cream-coloured earthenware (or items made of it) decorated typically in drab blue and green, brown , ochre, yellow, and orange, and produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by members of the Pratt family, or by other potters using this style. Pratt-type adj. designating pottery of this type.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > types of English pottery
Liverpool1750
Wedgwood1787
Mason1804
Plymouth1816
Rockingham1840
Leeds1863
Jackfield1866
Spode1869
Whieldon1869
Minton1871
Doulton1873
Toft1878
Lambeth1884
Wrotham1884
metropolitan1891
Astbury1904
Pratt1920
Malling1933
1912 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain (new ed.) vii. 195 The Pottery of Felix Pratt,..marked with the name Pratt and known as ‘Pratt's ware’, was in this district [sc. Fenton].]
1920 G. W. Rhead Earthenware Collector xi. 197 One of the most successful pieces of Pratt ware is the mug of ‘Midnight Conversation’ in the Hanley Museum.
1920 G. W. Rhead Earthenware Collector xi. 197 A number of Pratt jugs have been known as Sunderland jugs.
1933 W. B. Honey Eng. Pottery & Porcelain vii. 100 The so-called ‘Pratt ware’ was made by other Staffordshire potters as well as by those of Sunderland and other places in the North.
1951 Times 21 Apr. 1/5 (advt.) Pratt Pottery Group in Fair Hebe design.
1957 C. W. Mankowitz & R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Eng. Pottery & Porcelain 182/2 ‘Pratt’ type, wares made at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, decorated with a distinctive palette of high temperature colours.
1967 Times 14 Mar. 21/7 (advt.) English pottery and porcelain..including..a Prattware grotto group.
1974 Country Life 21 Feb. (Suppl.) 56 Six Pratt Pot-lids.
1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 56 Some had watched him put calls on hold while he proudly showed off his collection of Pratt ware.
2004 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 12 Dec. e4 At almost two feet tall, this is a major piece of Pratt-type, transfer-printed earthenware.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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