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nounpottern ore (uncountable)
- dateduncountableDated form of potter's ore.
I likewise took notice of an ore, which, for its aptness to vitrify, and serve the potters to glaze their vessels, the miners call pottern-ore, and sell it dearer than other ore
1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I
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