单词 | pot-bank |
释义 | > as lemmaspot-bank pot-bank n. English regional a pottery; cf. bank n.2 10. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > pottery pottery1480 pothouse1673 potwork1681 piggery1818 mug-house1841 bank1843 pot-bank1888 1888 Sat. Rev. 66 11/1 Countless generations worked at the ‘potbank’. 1967 Past & Present 82 Lacking the aid of machinery to regulate the pace of work on the pot-bank, that supposedly-formidable disciplinarian, Josiah Wedgwood, was reduced to enforcing discipline upon the potters in surprisingly muted terms. 1994 Times 29 June 17/2 Johnson, like so many youngsters living in Stoke-on-Trent in the 1920s,..went to work in the local ‘potbank’—the name given to a collection of bottle-shaped kilns and warehouses making up one factory unit. < as lemmas |
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