Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as hollowmeat.
- n. China, glass, and other wares in the form of cups, tumblers, tea-pots, etc.: in distinction from flat ware, such as plates, saucers, or the like.
Examples
“Fine crystal, sterling silver flatware, sterling hollow-ware, table linens,crystal decanters full of wine and spirits setting on a marble topped sideboard, china and porcelain table settings ...”
"Selling was an intellectual pleasure, an art form" for Josiah Wedgwood.
“The very first hollow-ware casting made in America is said to be still in existence.”
“We have already manufacturing communities so well supplied with tasks for brains and hands, that everybody works, or would do so but for Circe and her seductive hollow-ware.”
“Mammy picked it up wherever she found it, beat it fine and used it on everything -- shelves, floors, hollow-ware, milk pans, piggins, cedar water buckets -- it made their brass hoops shine like gold.”
“Dar pedidos para ferretería, ollería, y maquinaría: To give orders for ironware, hollow-ware and machinery.”
“He had laid aside nothing, and his movements were attended by the usual rattle of hollow-ware.”
“We welcome you heartily to our home, well knowing that your kind wishes are not like -- your useful and elegant tokens of remembrance -- _hollow-ware_.”
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“In fact, it is because connubial bliss beats every other species of felicity all hollow that we have met this evening to requite it with hollow-ware.”
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“Formerly they manufactured more than at present -- having made at one time, for the general market, steel, leather, hollow-ware, pipes, and woolen yarn.”
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation
“For corn-shovels and wooden dishes it is preferred to the red flowering maples, because it is lighter and less liable to split; consequently, hollow-ware and other articles made of it sell at higher prices.”
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