potter's clay

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pot·ter's clay

(pŏt′ərz)

A clay suitable for making pottery or for modeling. Also called potter's earth.

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potter's clay - clay that does not contain any iron; used in making pottery or for modeling

potter's earth

clay - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

slip - potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics

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Those turf-heaps, mounds of potter's clay, melted at the word of the soldiers like butter in the frying-pans of Friesland housewives.

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I had read of the potter's clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood.

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Other types of minerals targeted for development are dolomite (20 blocks), marble (13), limestone (12), silica (8), laterite (8), feldspar (5), carbonatite (4), gypsum (3), kaolin (2), attapulgite (2), potter's clay (2), and basalt (1).