单词 | Tickney |
释义 | ˈTickney Obs. or dial. [From Ticknal, name of a place near Derby where this earthenware was made.] Epithet of a coarse kind of earthenware (Tickney ware); hence, made of this ware (also fig.).
1680V. Alsop Mischief of Impos. viii. 78 Are Churchmen more afraid their Tickney Rules and China-Canons should be preserved than broken? 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 113/1 Potters [are] sellers of Earthen or Tickney Ware. Ibid. xiv. (Roxb.) 7/1 A drinking Jugg or a Tickney Jugge. [1870W. Chaffers Porcelain (ed. 3) 592 There was a Pottery at Ticknal near Derby as early as the 16th century, which produced articles of a coarse hard body, of a dull brown colour, sometimes decorated with yellow slip.] 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Tickney, Tickney-ware, obsols., common, coarse earthenware. |

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