potstone

[ pot-stohn ]

noun

1. a kind of soapstone, sometimes used for making pots pot and other household utensils.

potstone

/ ˈpɒtˌstəʊn /

noun

1. an impure massive variety of soapstone, formerly used for making cooking vessels

Word History and Origins

Origin of potstone¹

First recorded in 1765–75; pot ¹ + stone

Example Sentences

The softer varieties are cut by the natives into grissets and cooking utensils of various shapes, some of which resemble the cambstones found in Ireland, which are made from a kind of potstone, abundant in parts of the County Donegal.

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Many of these contain small quantities of chromium and nickel, and are associated with soapstone, potstone, dolomite, and magnetite.

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Five miles beyond this river, on the extremity of a rocky cape, the Esquimaux had constructed several store-houses, of drift timber, which were filled with dried deer-meat and seal-blubber; along with which, cooking kettles, and lamps made of potstone, copper-headed spears, and various other articles, were carefully laid up.

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It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel.

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But among the specimens are also a coarse conglomerate of a dull purplish colour, including pebbles of granular quartz and a fragment of a slaty rock like potstone: the hue and aspect of the compound being precisely those of the oldest sandstones.

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