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crockware

crockware noun: crockery.

Noun

crockware (uncountable)

  1. Crockery.
    • There are all types and sizes of pottery housed in the museum. Jugs, crockware, churns and even a “little brown jug” make up the collection which also includes a few voodo pots.1970 November, Carolina Country, volume 2, number 11, page 10
    • When my cousin from the Navy came home, we put some grape juice and oranges and lemons in mother’s thick white crockware pitchers.1976, Black Bostonia (Boston 200 Neighborhood History Series), The Boston 200 Corporation, page 31

Examples of crockware in a sentence

  • Fisher wrote her that the butler’s primary duty was to help create a happy home “and dodging all the thrown crockware.”1985, Ralph G. Martin, Charles & Diana, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 372:
  • Place flowers in some kind of crockware.1988, John Heinerman, Heinerman’s Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing Company, →ISBN, page...
  • A few quick strokes with my digger on the rocky rim of the spring-branch turn up shards of crockware, a broken mason jar, and a tiny, twisted piece of copper tubing.1995, Kim Derek Pritts, Ginseng: How to Find, Grow, and Use America’s Forest Gold, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, pages 139–140:
  • They ate at one o’clock on gaily flowered crockware.2003, Francine Craft, Linda Hudson-Smith, Michelle Monkou, Give Love, Arabesque, →ISBN, page 62:

Origin of crockware

From crock + -ware.

Questions about crockware

What does crockware mean?
Crockware means crockery.
How do you use crockware in a sentence?
Fisher wrote her that the butler’s primary duty was to help create a happy home “and dodging all the thrown crockware.”
What part of speech is crockware?
Crockware is a noun.

Words near crockware in the dictionary

  1. crocks
  2. crocks of gold
  3. crocks of shit
  4. crocks off
  5. crocks up
  6. crockware
  7. crocky
  8. croco-snapped
  9. crocodile
  10. crocodile bird
  11. crocodile birds

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