Definition of Pipeclays

1. pipeclay [v] - See also: pipeclay

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pipeclays

pipe tong
pipe tongs
pipe union
pipe up
pipe vine
pipe vise
pipe wrench
pipe wrenches
pipeage
pipeages
pipebomb
pipebombs
pipeclay
pipeclayed
pipeclaying
pipeclays (current term)
pipecolic acid
pipecolinic acid
pipecuronium
pipecuronium bromide
piped
piped down
pipedream
pipedreams
pipefish
pipefishes
pipefitter
pipefitters
pipefitting
pipeful

Literary usage of Pipeclays

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

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"They, too, had a vocation, and the "pipeclays" wero as jubilant as their brethren the ... and "pipeclays" have goaded more soldiers to insubordination, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1904)
"The light coloured sands and pipeclays which form the Bag- shot Beds at Corfe, ... The pipeclays at Corfe are fairly extensive, but the beds are possibly ..."

3. The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain by Leonard Williams (1907)
"Two hundred workmen were employed, and pottery of every description was made, common earthenware, pipeclays in imitation of the English ones, and porcelain ..."

4. The Industrial Arts in Spain by Juan Facundo Riaño (1879)
"... it appears that 200 workmen were employed, and pottery of every description was made, common earthenware, pipeclays in imitation of the English ones, ..."

5. The Geology of the Goldfields of British Guiana by John Burchmore Harrison, Frank Fowler, Charles Wilgress Anderson (1908)
"... the series consist of pipeclays, more or less ferruginous brick-earths, and sandy loams. As a rule, they contain very few distinguishable minerals other ..."

6. Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society edited by Charles William Sutton (1892)
"For the most part the patterns were impressed with a wooden mould, and, where pipeclays were to be had, the interstices forming the designs were afterwards ..."

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