as in pottery
articles made of baked clay
a display of beautifully hand-painted crockery on the kitchen countertop
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Recent Examples of crockery
The Past How medieval Arabs invented grenades to drop on Crusaders
Before gunpowder was introduced to the West, medieval Arabs devised grenades using crockery.
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
In the act of leaving, my parents got rid of old furniture, chucked what couldn’t be used, then shipped to Kerala the dining table and chairs, as well as other boxes of knickknacks, old crockery, and other items known only to my mother.
—Deepak Unnikrishnan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2020
Cosmetically, hard water can stain your appliances, crockery, cutlery, and glassware by leaving chalky deposits on the surface.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
The music, in this case, arises not from a conventional score, but rather from the diegetic accompaniments of soup bubbling in a pot, butter sizzling in a pan and utensils scraping against crockery.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
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Big Think, 24 June 2024
In the act of leaving, my parents got rid of old furniture, chucked what couldn’t be used, then shipped to Kerala the dining table and chairs, as well as other boxes of knickknacks, old crockery, and other items known only to my mother.
—Deepak Unnikrishnan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2020
Cosmetically, hard water can stain your appliances, crockery, cutlery, and glassware by leaving chalky deposits on the surface.
—USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
The music, in this case, arises not from a conventional score, but rather from the diegetic accompaniments of soup bubbling in a pot, butter sizzling in a pan and utensils scraping against crockery.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
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“Crockery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crockery. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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