CROCKERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crockery mean? 

• CROCKERY (noun)
  The noun CROCKERY has 1 sense:

1. tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively

  Familiarity information: CROCKERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROCKERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crockery; dishware

Hypernyms ("crockery" is a kind of...):

tableware (articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crockery"):

china; chinaware (dishware made of high quality porcelain)

cup (a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle)

dish (a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food)

egg cup; eggcup (dishware consisting of a small cup for serving a boiled egg)

ovenware (heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served)

 Context examples 

You will eventually manage the great depôt in Paris, which will pour a flood of English crockery into the shops of a hundred and thirty-four agents in France.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no furniture, save a single long dresser covered with coarse crockery, and a number of wooden benches and trestles, the legs of which sank deeply into the soft clay floor, while the only light, save that of the fire, was furnished by three torches stuck in sockets on the wall, which flickered and crackled, giving forth a strong resinous odor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘And now,’ said he, ‘I want you to make a list of the furniture shops, for they all sell crockery.’

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)