| 单词 | throwing house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrowing house throwing house n. now chiefly historical an outbuilding in a pottery factory set aside for the process of throwing pottery. ΚΠ 1747 Indenture in Trans. Eng. Ceramic Circle (1972) 8 176 All those Pot ovens houses Buildings Ware houses Work houses Throwing houses With the Appurtenances in the holding of Thomas Whieldon. 1814 Staffs. Advertiser 6 Aug. 2/4 To be sold by auction... All that capital set of China Works, situate at Lane Delph..consisting of one Slip House, two Throwing Houses, large enough to contain four Lathes, [etc.]. 1971 L. Weatherill Pottery Trade ii. 19 Aaron Shaw..had tubs, a cistern, clay, and slip in his throwing house. 2006 P. Wilkinson & P. Ashley Eng. Buildings Bk. 237/2 There were thousands of bottle kilns and throwing houses in the towns known collectively as ‘The Potteries’. < as lemmas |
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