† pot-shelln.
U.S. regional. Obsolete. rare.
= potsherd n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > fragment or part of
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1865 Sci. Amer. Mar. 156/3 I am prepared to grind fire brick, pot shells, raw and burnt clay, etc.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 248 The pots are made of fire-clay..mixed in varying proportions of raw and burned clay and pieces of the broken pots called ‘pot shells’, freed from glass and ground fine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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