(Also with hyphen, or as two words.) A hard dense kind of pottery ware, made from very siliceous clay, or a mixture of clay with a considerable amount of flint or sand.
1683. Digby’s Chym. Secr., II. 207. Take an Earthen Pan of Stone-ware.
1747. Berkeley, Tar-water in Plague, Wks. III. 487. I use tar-water made in stone ware or earthen very well glazed.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. (1842), 373. Bottles … on sand, placed in a bowl or cup of common stone ware.
1880. Janvier, Pract. Keramics, 136. Very fine stonewares, mostly iron-body, are made in Japan and China.
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1783. J. Tait’s Directory Glasgow (1872), 54. Oliphant Francis, stone ware dealer, King’s street.
1807. T. Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 302. The paper, while still moist, is applied to the stoneware biscuit and pressed upon it.
1829. S. Shaw, Staffordsh. Potteries, 173. His beautiful and excellent Stone Ware Pottery.
1833. N. Arnott, Physics (ed. 5), II. 39. A black stone-ware teapot … will radiate away 100 degrees of its heat in the same time that a pot of polished metal will radiate only 12 degrees.
1854. Ronalds & Richardson, Chem. Technol. (ed. 2), I. 229. The smoke and hot gases are caused to circulate in an extensive series of metallic or stoneware flues.
1884. C. T. Davis, Bricks, Tiles, etc. (1889), 308. The interval between the South Amboy fire-clay bed and the stoneware clay bed.
