† unakern.
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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white claya1387
bottle clay1686
porcelain clay1690
blue clay1698
tasco1726
kaolin1728
capital1738
unaker1744
saggar1786
ball clay1811
Cornish clay1829
china-clay1840
Poole clay1875
bleaching-clay1881
pâte1890
virgin clay1891
1744 in Dict. National Biogr. (1889) XX. 300/1 The material [for making china-ware] is an earth, the produce of the Cherokee nation in America, called by the natives unaker.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 641/1 The clay, which was called ‘unaker,’ was brought from America, and was probably an impure kind of kaolin.
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