'Potter's clay' definitions:

Definition of 'potter's clay'

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noun
Clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling [syn: potter's clay, potter's earth]

Definition of 'Potter's clay'

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  • Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
  • 1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. One who pots meats or other eatables. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. [1913 Webster]
  • Potter's asthma (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. --Parkers.
  • Potter's clay. See under Clay.
  • Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in --Matt. xxvii. 7.
  • Potter's ore. See Alquifou.
  • Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel." --Shak.
  • Potter wasp (Zool.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as cankerworms, as food for its young. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Potter's clay'

From: GCIDE
  • Clay \Clay\ (kl[=a]), n. [AS. cl[=ae]g; akin to LG. klei, D. klei, and perh. to AS. cl[=a]m clay, L. glus, gluten glue, Gr. gloio`s glutinous substance, E. glue. Cf. Clog.]
  • 1. A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Poetry & Script.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. [1913 Webster]
  • I also am formed out of the clay. --Job xxxiii. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • Bowlder clay. See under Bowlder.
  • Brick clay, the common clay, containing some iron, and therefore turning red when burned.
  • Clay cold, cold as clay or earth; lifeless; inanimate.
  • Clay ironstone, an ore of iron consisting of the oxide or carbonate of iron mixed with clay or sand.
  • Clay marl, a whitish, smooth, chalky clay.
  • Clay mill, a mill for mixing and tempering clay; a pug mill.
  • Clay pit, a pit where clay is dug.
  • Clay slate (Min.), argillaceous schist; argillite.
  • Fatty clays, clays having a greasy feel; they are chemical compounds of water, silica, and aluminia, as halloysite, bole, etc.
  • Fire clay, a variety of clay, entirely free from lime, iron, or an alkali, and therefore infusible, and used for fire brick.
  • Porcelain clay, a very pure variety, formed directly from the decomposition of feldspar, and often called kaolin.
  • Potter's clay, a tolerably pure kind, free from iron. [1913 Webster]