v. Pottery. [app. onomatopæic: with a feeling for plunge, and perhaps for blend, bludgeon, blow, or other bl- words.] trans. To mix (clay, powdered flint, etc.) up with water. Hence Blunging vbl. sb.
1828. Potter’s Art, II. 61. 38–9.
| Our task we now begin—and first we blunge | |
| (Amalgamate and blend) the liquid flint | |
| And moisten’d clay … | |
| With wielded paddle-staff (a blunger call’d) | |
| Until the blended matter, all afloat, | |
| Thin slip becomes. |
1832. G. Porter, Porcelain, 36. The mixing of the clay, which is called blunging, is effected in a trough.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., XII. 346. For pottery … the clay is what is termed ‘blunged’—that is—beaten up in tanks of water by means of powerful revolving arms or cutters.
