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.

The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…

One who bolts; esp.: (a) A horse which starts suddenly aside. (b) A man who breaks away from his party.

A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, o…

The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, 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.

Pottery made at the city of Delft in Holland; hence:

The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place o…

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…