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Potter's clay   /pˈɑtərz kleɪ/   Listen
Potter's clay

noun
1.
Clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling.  Synonym: potter's earth.






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"Potter's clay" Quotes from Famous Books



... pottery to market stopped his horse against my field and inquired concerning Wyman the younger. He had long ago bought a potter's wheel of him, and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter's clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau



Words linked to "Potter's clay" :   clay, slip, potter's earth



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