Crockery
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Crocks or earthenware vessels, especially domestic utensils, collectively. uncountable, usually
"All the street was lined with wretched hucksters and their merchandise of gooseberries, green apples, children's dirty cakes, cheap crockeries, brushes, and tin-ware; among which objects the people were swarming about busily."
- 2 tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively wordnet
- 3 Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from. uncountable, usually
Example
More examples"Crockery is a term that refers to ceramic dishes in everyday use, as differentiated from fine porcelain."
Etymology
From crocker (“(obsolete) potter”) + -ery (suffix with the sense ‘a class, group, or collection of’ forming nouns). Crocker is derived from crock (“earthenware or stoneware jar or storage container”) + -er (suffix attached to nouns indicating persons whose occupations are indicated by the nouns); crock is from Middle English crok, crokke (“earthenware jar, pot, or other container; cauldron; belly, stomach”) [and other forms], from Old English crocc, crocca (“crock, pot, vessel”) [and other forms], from Proto-Germanic *krukkō, *krukkô (“vessel”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“vessel”).
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