Dictionary

crockware en · NOUN

Etymology

From crock + -ware.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Crockery.
   • Place flowers in some kind of crockware. 1988, John Heinerman, Heinerman’s Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 121:
   • Made of a dense gray or buff-colored clay, American potters began churning out this utilitarian crockware in the late 1700s. 2022 July, Country Living, page 12:
   • For some reason the stone-floored country kitchen put him mind of his grandmother’s kitchen back home in Boone, North Carolina. Maybe it was the green-mottled crockware that lined the open shelves. 2009, Chloe M. Palov, Ark of Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 188:
   • The Princess also asked Fisher to send her a note on what he thought were the butler’s duties. Fisher wrote her that the butler’s primary duty was to help create a happy home “and dodging all the thrown crockware.” 1985, Ralph G. Martin, Charles & Diana, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 372:
   • There are all types and sizes of pottery housed in the museum. Jugs, crockware, churns and even a “little brown jug” make up the collection which also includes a few voodo pots. 1970 November, Carolina Country, volume 2, number 11, page 10:
   • They ate at one o’clock on gaily flowered crockware. 2003, Francine Craft, Linda Hudson-Smith, Michelle Monkou, Give Love, Arabesque, →ISBN, page 62:
   • The entire wall was covered with their photos and ordered by age, infant to adult, just like her crockware. 2014, C.H. Valentino, Eldon Hughes, Dust to Dust, Valentino Books Inc., →ISBN, page 155:
   • When my cousin from the Navy came home, we put some grape juice and oranges and lemons in mother’s thick white crockware pitchers. 1976, Black Bostonia (Boston 200 Neighborhood History Series), The Boston 200 Corporation, page 31:
   • I’d collected some nice crockware at different yard sales, and that all went with me to California. 2017, Lynn Cahoon, Fatality by Firelight, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 164:
   • I’m silent as she points out stove and microwave, oven and freezer, the location of every utensil and pot and article of crockware, my head bobbing in time with every pause. 2017, Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods, Abaddon Books, →ISBN, page 134:
   • A few quick strokes with my digger on the rocky rim of the spring-branch turn up shards of crockware, a broken mason jar, and a tiny, twisted piece of copper tubing. 1995, Kim Derek Pritts, Ginseng: How to Find, Grow, and Use America’s Forest Gold, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, pages 139–140: