crock·er·y

(krŏk′ə-rē)

Earthenware.

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crockery

(ˈkrɒkərɪ)

china dishes, earthen vessels, etc, collectively

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

crock•er•y

(ˈkrɒk ə ri)

n.

earthenware.

[1710–20]

Crockery

earthen crocks or china collectively, 1755.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

crockery - tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively

dishware

chinaware, china - dishware made of high quality porcelain

cup - a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle; "he put the cup back in the saucer"; "the handle of the cup was missing"

dish - a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food; "we gave them a set of dishes for a wedding present"

egg cup, eggcup - dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg

ovenware - heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served

tableware - articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)

Translations

آنية فُخّاريّـه

nádobínádobí z kameniny

porcelænservice

Geschirr

astia

vaisselle

edények

leirvörur

porcellana terraglia

servise steintøy

посуда

lončena posoda

çanak çömlektoprak eşya

陶器

crockery

[ˈkrɒkərɪ] N (Brit) → loza f, vajilla f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

crockery

[ˈkrɒkəri] n → vaisselle f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

crockery

n (Brit) → Geschirr nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

crockery

[ˈkrɒkərɪ] n (earthenware) → vasellame m (di terracotta); (plates, cups) → stoviglie fpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

crockery

(ˈkrokəri) noun

earthenware and china dishes, eg plate, cups, saucers etc. I've washed the crockery but the cutlery is still dirty.

We need more dishes (US)
We need more crockery (UK) → Potřebujeme více nádobí → Vi har brug for mere køkkentøj → Wir brauchen mehr Geschirr → Necesitamos más vajilla → Tarvitsemme lisää astioita → Il nous faut plus de vaisselle → Treba nam još pribora za jelo → Abbiamo bisogno di altre stoviglie → 食器がもっと必要です → 그릇이 더 필요해요 → We hebben meer serviesgoed nodig → Vi trenger mer servise → Potrzebujemy więcej naczyń → Nós precisamos de mais louças → Chúng tôi cần thêm bát đĩa → 我们还需要几件炊具

Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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They were such perfectly natural-looking leads that I could hardly keep from "taking them up." Among the oyster-shells were mixed many fragments of ancient, broken crockery ware.

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You see, in addi- tion to the dinner-materials, which called for a suffi- ciently round sum, I had bought a lot of extras for the future comfort of the family: for instance, a big lot of wheat, a delicacy as rare to the tables of their class as was ice-cream to a hermit's; also a sizeable deal dinner-table; also two entire pounds of salt, which was another piece of extravagance in those people's eyes; also crockery, stools, the clothes, a small cask of beer, and so on.

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By one of the parrots was a cat made of crockery, and a crockery dog by the other; and when you pressed down on them they squeaked, but didn't open their mouths nor look different nor interested.

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You don't find that foreign birds and butterflies come and perch upon your crockery; you cannot be permitted to paint foreign birds and butterflies upon your crockery.

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"It's what I told you 'ud come, over and over again; and there's your month's wage gone, and more, to pay for that jug as I've had i' the house this ten year, and nothing ever happened to't before; but the crockery you've broke sin' here in th' house you've been 'ud make a parson swear--God forgi' me for saying so--an' if it had been boiling wort out o' the copper, it 'ud ha' been the same, and you'd ha' been scalded and very like lamed for life, as there's no knowing but what you will be some day if you go on; for anybody 'ud think you'd got the St.

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Near the entrance was a dresser full of crockery. The shutters were closed, there were few flies, and it was so clean that Levin was anxious that Laska, who had been running along the road and bathing in puddles, should not muddy the floor, and ordered her to a place in the corner by the door.

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My cicerone perceived the astonishment with which I gazed at this monument of savage crockery, and immediately addressed himself in the task of enlightening me: but all in vain; and to this hour the nature of the monument remains a complete mystery to me.

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Tod amongst the broken crockery, and there was a terrific battle all over the kitchen.

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She had undertaken to lay the table, to provide the linen, crockery, etc., and to cook the dishes in her kitchen, and Katerina Ivanovna had left it all in her hands and gone herself to the cemetery.

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And when he would hear Tashtego singing out for him to produce himself, that his bones might be picked, the simple-witted Steward all but shattered the crockery hanging round him in the pantry, by his sudden fits of the palsy.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy; and I could forsake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious.

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The aunts could hear her scurrying to and fro, beating up pillows and feather beds, flapping towels, jingling crockery, singing meanwhile in her clear voice:--

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