Definition of Blunging

1. n. The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.

Definition of Blunging

1. Verb. (present participle of blunge) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blunging

1. blunge [v] - See also: blunge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blunging

blunderful
blunderhead
blunderheads
blunderin'
blundering
blunderingly
blunderings
blunderous
blunderously
blunders
blunge
blunged
blunger
blungers
blunges
blunging (current term)
blunk
blunked
blunker
blunkers
blunking
blunks
blunt
blunt-end
blunt-end DNA
blunt-end ligation
blunt-ended DNA
blunt-leaf heath
blunt duct adenosis
blunt file

Literary usage of Blunging

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Mines (1918)
"The effect of different degrees of blunging on the initial viscosity is shown in curves 1, 3, and 4 of figure 3. Curves / and 3 were plotted from viscosity ..."

2. Treatise on Ceramic Industries: A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and by Emile Bourry, Wilton P. Rix (1901)
"The second method also consists of four operations:—• blunging of raw materials in water. Apportionment and mixing in liquid state. Sifting. Stiffening. ..."

3. Clays, Their Occurrence, Properties, and Uses: With Especial Reference to by Heinrich Reis (1908)
"For glazed earthenware bodies it means simply washing, blunging, screening, and filter- pressing the clay body, but for white-ware bodies a somewhat more ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1909)
"In short, one-sixth of the water is removed by the filtered clay each operation, and this amount must be supplied In- new water for the next blunging. ..."

5. Memoir of the Geological Survey of the State of Delaware: Including the by James Curtis Booth (1841)
"Carrying out the same operation on a large scale, we obtain a fine clay adapted to earthen ware. By the old blunging process the clay ..."

6. Journal by Australian Ex Libris Society (1885)
"... were used for " blunging," that is, softening the clay, and floating off its finer particles to be used in the manufacture of the finer earthenware. ..."

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