单词 | stoneware |
释义 | stonewaren. a. A hard dense kind of pottery ware, made from very siliceous clay, or a mixture of clay with a considerable amount of flint or sand. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > stoneware stone1635 stoneware1682 grès1872 1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets ii. 207 Take an Earthen Pan of Stone-ware. 1747 G. Berkeley Tar-water in Plague in Wks. (1871) III. 487 I use tar-water made in stone ware or earthen very well glazed. 1830 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. (new ed.) xv. 362 Bottles..on sand, placed in a bowl or cup of common stone ware. 1880 C. A. Janvier Pract. Keramics 136 Very fine stonewares, mostly iron-body, are made in Japan and China. b. attributive. Π 1783 J. Tait's Directory Glasgow (1872) 54 Oliphant Francis, stone ware dealer, King's street. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 302 The paper, while still moist, is applied to the stoneware biscuit and pressed upon it. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries 173 His beautiful and excellent Stone Ware Pottery. 1833 N. Arnott Elements Physics (ed. 5) II. 39 A black stone-ware teapot..will radiate away 100 degrees of its heat in the same time that a pot of polished metal will radiate only 12 degrees. 1854 E. Ronalds & T. Richardson Knapp's Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 229 The smoke and hot gases are caused to circulate in an extensive series of metallic or stoneware flues. 1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (1889) 308 The interval between the South Amboy fire-clay bed and the stoneware clay bed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1682 |
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