Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

crackle glass en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A type of glass with fine cracks, developed in Venice in the 16th century by immersing the hot glass in cold water.
    • When this change has been fully developed we get a true crackle-glass, not to be confounded with the frosted glass of Venice mentioned in Chapter XIII. 1907, Edward Dillon, Glass, London: Methuen and Co., page 17:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
crackle glasses Number=Plur lexicographic
crackle-glass alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

crackled glass · ice glass