释义 |
pot-earth [pot n.1] Potter's earth, potter's clay; Geol. the brick-earth of the London basin.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xiv. §18. 125 The richest of such earth, (as pott earth and marle) will with much fire grow more compacted. 1766Entick London IV. 201 All the hard crust of pot-earth..had been robbed by the potters. 1906Daily Chron. 28 Nov. 6/7 To bridge over a weak spot from which the early potters had abstracted all the pot earth or brick earth, as we now call it. |