| 单词 | pot clay |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspot clay pot clay n. (a) clay that is free from iron and therefore suitable for making earthenware; (b) (also Pot Clay) a bed of this kind of clay near the base of the English coal measures. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pottery eartha1350 potter's clay?a1425 potter's earth1440 pot earth?a1450 argil1530 pot clay1674 throwing clay1686 figuline1859 pottery clay1869 1674 C. Reynell True Eng. Interest 38 Many Clays also are very profitable, as ordinary pot Clay.., crucible Clay, and such that will endure the fire. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3821/8 A quantity of Pot-Clay, and Working Tools for Bottles or Flint. 1860 E. Hull Geol. Leicestershire Coalfield (Mem. Geol. Surv.) vi. 35 (caption) A. Loose breccia... B. Purple marl forming base of New Red Sandstone. C. Sandy shale. D. Coal 3 feet thick. E. Pot-clay, with rootlets stretching from the coal. 1913 Geol. Derbyshire Coalfield (Mem. Geol. Surv.) viii. 124 Pot-clay suitable for the manufacture of stoneware occurs below a thin coal above the Alton seam. 1968 M. A. Calver in D. Murchison & T. S. Westoll Coal viii. 173 The Pot Clay fauna lacks the typical benthonic assemblage exhibited by the other kinds of marine band. 2000 Glass Internat. (Nexis) 1 May 4 We have records detailing sales of fireclay to local glass factories in the early 1800s and by the 1870s there were sales of firebricks and prepared potclay. < as lemmas |
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