Obs. or dial. [From Ticknal, name of a place near Derby where this earthenware was made.] Epithet of a coarse kind of earthenware (Tickney ware); hence, made of this ware (also fig.).
1680. V. Alsop, Mischief of Impos., viii. 78. Are Churchmen more afraid their Tickney Rules and China-Canons should be preserved than broken?
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 113/1. Potters [are] sellers of Earthen or Tickney Ware. Ibid., xiv. (Roxb.), 7/1. A drinking Jugg or a Tickney Jugge.
[1870. Chaffers, Porcelain (ed. 3), 592. There was a Pottery at Ticknal near Derby as early as the 16th century, which produced articles of a coarse hard body, of a dull brown colour, sometimes decorated with yellow slip.]
1881. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Tickney, Tickney-ware, obsols., common, coarse earthenware.
