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Definition of Potstone
1. n. A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
Definition of Potstone
1. Noun. (minerology) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potstone
1. a variety of steatite [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potstone
Literary usage of Potstone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of the Economic Minerals of Canada by Geological Survey of Canada (1876)
"In the latter locality the soapstone is inter- stratified with potstone and ...
Bolton, lot 26, range 2 Geological Survey. a. Cut specimens of potstone. ..."
2. Elements of Mineralogy by Richard Kirwan (1810)
"potstone is often intermixed with quartz, or some other stone of the siliceous
genus; of this sort is the specimen., Leske, S. 148, and often with quartz ..."
3. Mycenæ: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1878)
"... as at Troy — Moulds for earrings and other ornaments of gold and silver, and
curious clay cones — Other ornaments of glazed clay, potstone, &c. ..."
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