glostn.
/ɡlɒst/ Ceramics.
The lead glaze used for pottery. In glost-fireman n. the man who attends to a glost-oven (= †gloss-fireman). glost-oven n. the oven in which glazed ware is fired (= glaze-oven, †gloss-oven). glost-placer n. the operative who applies the glost.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Glost-Oven.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) xxi. §4 (China, Porcelain Manufacture) Glost Placer, Fireman.
1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Glost-oven.
1899 Rep. Commission in Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 6/2 That young persons and women should be excluded from employment as..glost placers in factories where lead glaze is used.
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