Crockery: alternatives and connections

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

Clay, or potter's earth; sometimes pure clay, or alumina. See Clay.

Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.

Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and…

To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or…

An instrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl o…

Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay.

Covered with minute cracks in the glaze; -- said of some kinds of porcelain and fine earthenware.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.

Earthenware made in imitation of the above; any glazed earthenware made for table use, and the like.

The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, includin…

Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.

Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…