Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of steatite once used to make cooking vessels.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A concretion or mass of flint, of a pear-shaped form, and having a central cavity passing through the longer axis.
- noun Same as
soapstone or steatite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A variety of
steatite sometimes manufactured intoculinary vessels .
Etymologies
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pot + stone
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Examples
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It is a shallow crescent-shaped vessel of potstone, or what is called soapstone from its soapy feel.
Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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