utensilry

English

Etymology

From utensil +‎ -ry.

Noun

utensilry (uncountable)

1. Utensils collectively.
   • 1829, Geo[rge] Robertson, Rural Recollections; or, The Progress of Improvement in Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Irvine: Cunninghame Press, […] for the Author; and sold by A. Douglas, Edinburgh, […], page 104:

     But perhaps, among all the improvements made in the household furniture and utensilry, the greatest about this time was the introduction of a new species of dishes, from England, instead of the old, clumsy, Dutch delftware, and the more ancient pewter-plates.

   • 1851, “MAPLE”, in John M[arius] Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia, or A General Dictionary of Agriculture. And of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice, Necessary to the Farmer, Stockfarmer, Gardener, Forester, Landsteward, Farrier, &c., volumes III (K–P), Edinburgh: A. Fullarton and Co., […]; and […] London, page 349, column 2:

     The timber is soft and white; and has long been held in esteem for the wooden utensils of the kitchen and the laundry and the farmery, and for many purposes of the turner; but, since the general introduction of mineral wares into most departments of utensilry, it has come to be of value principally to coopers.

   • 1892 July 2, A. G. Sawin, “Our Pulpit. Memorial Sermon.”, in The Chronicle‎^[1], volume III, number 19, Kansas City, Kan., Chicago, Ill.:

     A temple, not of wood and stone, fitted and graven by the cunning tools of the artisan, but a temple of personal character and surrounding conditions, wherein dwelleth righteousness; a temple wrought by the utensilry of religion, justice, philosophy, science, art and commerce, driven and directed by moral truth and spiritual power.

   • 1925, John B[aker] Opdycke, The Language of Advertising, New York, N.Y.: Isaac Pitman & Sons, […], pages 2–3 and 101–102:

     Indeed, what with the high cost of existing, together with the exploitation of natural foods and automatic kitchen utensilry, it is extremely likely that more men are today living without cooks than without books. […] coal that is being used in the manufacture of his indispensable trademarked food and clothing and utensilry, and it may be dispensed to him thru the medium of a Westinghouse fan.

   • 1934 July 13, Paul France, “Kitchen Chemistry”, in Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, Los Angeles, Calif., section “First Step”, page 7:

     If our cooking utensilry is not modern and we must resort to using water, then use a very small amount and let the vegetables cook practically in their own juices.

   • 1935 June 7, “Picture Stars Attend Costume Party as Famous Characters Portrayed in Popular Movies; ‘Manhattan’ Madness’ Is Back in Production on MGM Lot”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume CXLII, number 158, San Francisco, Calif., page 10, column 1:

     The robbers did away with every lick of their eating utensil-ry and, until the insurance company replaces, which will be some sixty-odd days, they’re doing a finger-to-mouth sit-ty-a-tion.

   • 1939 July 24, Caleb, “The ABC’s of Silver”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XCVIII, number 175, page 4, column 1:

     A flattened stone for knife . . . a pointed piece of wood for fork—and any deficits in mealtime satisfaction were remedied by husky fingers and thumbs. To complete this elemental need-picture, shells or hollowed gourds became jug and bowl; and any broad leaf or flat boulder could double as a plate. Thus developed the patterns of utensilry—but precisely where and when silver entered the scene to embody them, the archæologists are still disputing.

   • 1947 July, Herman H. Siegel, Harry Greitzer, Samuel Greenspan, “Restaurant Kitchens”, in Architectural Record, volume 102, number 1, page 119:

     Essentially every kitchen area, for all restaurant types, conforms to certain basic requirements, and to an ideal plan of layout and relationships among the indispensable functions: receipt and storage of food, preparation, cooking, service, and utensilry washing.

   • 1950 March 24, “Highwaymen and Music Hall Stars Knew This Famous Hostelry”, in Kensington Post & West London Star, page 4:

     When building operations were in progress, Mr. Levy told me, the old well in the ward was cleared and covered in; the clearing yielded some interesting relics; old bottles and flasks, mugs and tankards; in fact an extensive survey of drinking utensilry through the ages.

   • 1977, James A. McNamara, Katherine A. Ribbens, editors, The Biology of Occlusal Development: Proceedings of a Sponsored Symposium Honoring Professor Robert E. Moyers, Held March 4 and 5, 1977, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, →ISBN, page 185:

     Somewhat surprisingly, the development of agriculture, pottery, and an elaborated culinary utensilry had no dramatically visible effect.

   • 1998, Christopher Ehret, An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400, Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia; Oxford: James Currey, →ISBN, pages 119–120:

     Among the containers and utensils of the household, too, a variety of developments can be discerned from the vocabulary record. Southern Cushites, Eastern Sahelians, and Central Sudanic peoples all had somewhat differing emphases in their utensilry, and they produced a number of items not apparently part of the background that the Mashariki Bantu settlers brought with them into Eastern Africa. […] The Eastern Sahelian peoples in this history seem to have had a different influence on early Mashariki utensilry.

   • 2003, Devin McKinney, Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 300:

     He homed in on any mention of weaponry, utensilry, cutlery—[…]

   • 2006, Joseph Harry Silber, “The Prison Kitchen”, in The Ecstasies of Willaert, →ISBN, book II (Prison), pages 137–138:

     […] all of whom now shuffle around the cramped prison kitchen with their arms folded, eyeing its oily countertops, spotted walls, primitive utensilry, native cook and Adrian Willaert with tight-jawed distaste.

Synonyms

• utensilware