pottern ore

English

Noun

pottern ore (uncountable)

1. Dated form of potter's ore.
   • 1663, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part I:

     I likewise took notice of an ore, which, for its aptness to vitrify, and serve the potters to glaze their vessels, the miners call pottern-ore, and sell it dearer than other ore

References

• “pottern”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.