EARTHEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earthen mean? 

• EARTHEN (adjective)
  The adjective EARTHEN has 1 sense:

1. made of earth (or baked clay)

  Familiarity information: EARTHEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARTHEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made of earth (or baked clay)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

an earthen pot

Pertainym:

earth (the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface)

 Context examples 

They found that some of the glaciers balance on giant earthen sills that are protecting them, for now.

(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)

They make a rude kind of earthen and wooden vessels, and bake the former in the sun.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I took these vehicles and soon emptied them all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor of ten vessels, which was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it off at a draught; and so I did with the rest.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This had its effect; for he led me back into the house, and ordered a mare-servant to open a room, where a good store of milk lay in earthen and wooden vessels, after a very orderly and cleanly manner.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)