crockware

English

Etymology

From crock +‎ -ware.

Noun

crockware (uncountable)

1. Crockery.
   • 1970 November, Carolina Country, volume 2, number 11, page 10:

     There are all types and sizes of pottery housed in the museum. Jugs, crockware, churns and even a “little brown jug” make up the collection which also includes a few voodo pots.

   • 1976, Black Bostonia (Boston 200 Neighborhood History Series), The Boston 200 Corporation, page 31:

     When my cousin from the Navy came home, we put some grape juice and oranges and lemons in mother’s thick white crockware pitchers.

   • 1985, Ralph G. Martin, Charles & Diana, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 372:

     The Princess also asked Fisher to send her a note on what he thought were the butler’s duties. Fisher wrote her that the butler’s primary duty was to help create a happy home “and dodging all the thrown crockware.”

   • 1988, John Heinerman, Heinerman’s Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs, West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 121:

     Place flowers in some kind of crockware.

   • 1995, Kim Derek Pritts, Ginseng: How to Find, Grow, and Use America’s Forest Gold, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, pages 139–140:

     A few quick strokes with my digger on the rocky rim of the spring-branch turn up shards of crockware, a broken mason jar, and a tiny, twisted piece of copper tubing.

   • 2003, Francine Craft, Linda Hudson-Smith, Michelle Monkou, Give Love, Arabesque, →ISBN, page 62:

     They ate at one o’clock on gaily flowered crockware.

   • 2009, Chloe M. Palov, Ark of Fire, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 188:

     For some reason the stone-floored country kitchen put him mind of his grandmother’s kitchen back home in Boone, North Carolina. Maybe it was the green-mottled crockware that lined the open shelves.

   • 2014, C.H. Valentino, Eldon Hughes, Dust to Dust, Valentino Books Inc., →ISBN, page 155:

     The entire wall was covered with their photos and ordered by age, infant to adult, just like her crockware.

   • 2017, Lynn Cahoon, Fatality by Firelight, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 164:

     I’d collected some nice crockware at different yard sales, and that all went with me to California.

   • 2017, Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods, Abaddon Books, →ISBN, page 134:

     I’m silent as she points out stove and microwave, oven and freezer, the location of every utensil and pot and article of crockware, my head bobbing in time with every pause.

   • 2022 July, Country Living, page 12:

     Made of a dense gray or buff-colored clay, American potters began churning out this utilitarian crockware in the late 1700s.