slipcasting

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noun

A technique for the mass-production of pottery, especially for shapes not easily made on a wheel

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounslipcasting (plural slipcastings)

plural slipcastings · alternative slip casting · alternative slip-casting

  1. uncountableA technique for the mass-production of pottery, especially for shapes not easily made on a wheel
  2. countableA piece of pottery made by this technique

    It takes about a week and a half from the time you select the model you want copied till you have twenty slipcastings completed, fired, and ready for paint.

    1989, Thurston James, The Prop Builder's Molding & Casting Handbook, →ISBN, page 85
verb

alternative slip casting · alternative slip-casting

  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of slipcast

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