Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A heavy, nonporous, nontranslucent pottery, such as jasper ware, that is fired at a high temperature.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Potters' ware made from clay of very silicious nature, or a composition of clay and flint. The clay is beaten in water and purified, and the flint is calcined, ground, and suspended in water, and then mixed (in various proportions for various wares) with the clay. The mixture is then dried in a kiln until it is sufficiently solid to be kneaded, and is then beaten and tempered before being molded into shape. When fired it is not porous, like common pottery, but vitrified through its whole substance in consequence of the great amount of silex contained in the prepared clay. Vessels of stoneware are generally glazed by means of common salt. The salt, being thrown into the furnace, is volatilized by heat, becomes attached to the surface of the ware, and is decomposed, the muriatic acid flying off and leaving the soda behind it to form a fine thin glaze on the ware, which resists ordinary acids. The old German stoneware had often a vitreous glaze. See
grès de Flandres , under grès, and Cologne ware, under ware.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous
Etymologies
- stone + -ware (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The stoneware is oven -, microwave -, freezer, -, and dishwasher-safe, and can be used for any kind of dish.”
“Horn is a collection of porcelain stoneware tiles from Rex Ceramiche Artistiche.”
“If you've never tried cooking cornbread in stoneware, I highly recommend it.”
“Vietnamese potters in the clay-rich Red River Valley near the northern border with China had learned to make high-fired stoneware from the Chinese, somewhere around the first to third century.”
The Wall Street Journal: Vietnamese Vessels for the Heart and Soul
“Types of ware fired in this range are known as stoneware and porcelain.”
“The problem OCCUIS often with stoneware, which is fired to 1250”
“Domestic stoneware, that is, hand made, sturdy and elegant, in deep blue and jade green.”
“This winter I am branching out to find white stoneware, which is a bit more rare and more valuable.”
“But "stoneware" lacks the cultural resonance of "porcelain," which refers to a form the Chinese invented, and using glaze would have made the seeds less seedlike and probably very slippery, creating a different problem for the public.”
“I used the same kind of stoneware container for making pickles.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stoneware’.
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-Ware Ever
Shareware and its friends.
shareware, cardware, postcardware, beerware, emailware, freeware, otherware, requestware, abandonware, careware, catware, donateware and 136 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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HU Realia
Cultural realia from Hungary.
I have only included realia that already have an English spelling variant and DID NOT include Hungarian words that would be used in English texts unchang...charcoal kiln, embroidered felt ..., farmstead, golden stick, graft, herdsman’s whip, inn, lever well, limekiln, local border traffic, maypole, merino and 356 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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word set8
dolmen, cairn, penetralia, dovetailed, draftsmanship, gestalt, dingbat, tenebrosity, squash racquets, dogleg, prurience, deflowering and 68 more...
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