单词 | potter's ore |
释义 | > as lemmaspotter's ore potter's ore n. a type of lead ore used in the manufacture of pottery glazes; galena. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > lead ore plumbago1617 potter's ore1647 bouse1653 lead-ore1653 plumbary1657 potter's lead1670 galena1671 blue lead1728 alquifou1756 lead glance1811 galenite1868 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > lead-ore > for glazing pottery potter's ore1647 potter's lead1670 1647 Brief Declar. Surrender of Lundy 10 100 Tuns of his own Lead, and 100 Tuns of Potters Ore, to be brought from his Mines in Wales to Bydeford, for the better discharge of his debts in Devon. a1728 J. Woodward Attempt Nat. Hist. Fossils Eng. (1729) i. 213 Potters-ore with a vein of white spar passing through the middle of it. 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 378 The largest and most pure, the Bing-Ore, was sold to..Potters,..and..was called Potter's Ore. 1874 Rep. Geol. Surv. Missouri 688 The mineral is solid, unconnected with any other substance, of a broad grain, and what mineralogists call potter's-ore. 1998 J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms 122/2 Potters ore, a type of lead ore, very soft, pure and easily smelted. < as lemmas |
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