utensilware

English

Etymology

From utensil +‎ -ware.

Noun

utensilware (uncountable)

1. Utensils collectively.
   • 1930 April 18, “Max P. T. A. Field Day”, in The Benkelman Post and News-Chronicle, volume 36, number 50, Benkelman, Neb., page 10, column 1:

     The afternoon brought the spud contests, racing, freak events—always a big event in the lives of little men, and when later the ladies stepped into th^[sic] limelight and demonstrated how they could heave the stove utensilware and “slamb” the nails into tough timber, is was not for anyone but a hawk to see how they did it.

   • 1941 January 5, Chicago Sunday Tribune, part 3— D:

     Aluminumware / A famous name in utensil-ware—now at a drastic redution.

   • 1944 February, W. Rupert Maclaurin, “Wages and Profits in the Paper Industry, 1929–1939”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume LVIII, number 2, →DOI, page 215:

     The highest modal concentrations in a 10-cent range were 78.5 per cent in seamless hosiery, 70.6 per cent in enameled utensilware and 66.7 per cent in radio manufacturing.

   • 1954 July 21, “Metal Kitchenware ‘On the Square’”, in The State Journal, Lansing, Mich., page 51:

     A new line of kitchen utensil[-]ware featuring both copper and stainless steel will be brought out on the eastern market in mid-September.

   • 1955 March 8, “Stainless Steel Ideal”, in Winston-Salem Journal, 58th year, number 291, Winston-Salem, N.C., page [10], column 4:

     Stainless steel is now recognized by countless homemakers as ideal for service, both in utensilware and flatware.

   • 1958 March 2, “Kappa Deltas Hold Meeting”, in Ogden Standard-Examiner, 87th year, number 47, Ogden, Ut., page 2C, column 8:

     A combination meeting and utensilware party will be held by members of the Ogden Kappa Delta Alumnae Assn. at the home of Mrs. Robert V. Glasmann, 1270 33rd, on Wednesday, at 8 p.m.

   • 1962 May 17, William C. Kassebaum, “Teen-Ager Learns About Financing”, in The Indianapolis News, page 58:

     Then in comes a salesman yesterday offering Austrian aluminum cooking utensilware in unlimited quantity.

   • 1991 August, Marvin E. Winston, “Food Service Sanitation Guidelines to Avoid Food Poisoning Outbreaks”, in Dairy, Food and Environmental Sanitation, page 430, column 2:

     Likewise, single service dish or utensilware if used once, cannot be re-used. They must be discarded.

   • 2000 October 26, “Chief Steward”, in Intelligencer Journal, 207th year, number 113, Lancaster, Pa., classified section, page 13, column 3:

     Duties include maintaining proper utensil[-]ware levels throughout the kitchen; […]

   • 2004, Shiela Reaves, Wisconsin: Land of Change: An Illustrated History, Sun Valley, Calif.: American Historical Press, →ISBN, page 154:

     Wisconsin entrepreneurs bought aluminum from Alcoa and made cookware, which by 1919 was close to becoming the most preferred cookware and utensilware.

Synonyms

• utensilry