fire clay

How to use fire clay in a sentence

• This mould is then filled with a mixture of one part fire clay, one part ground fire brick and one part fire sand.

  Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting | Harold P. Manly

• The bolts should have a covering of fire-clay to protect them from the action of the fire.

  A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

• Lute the joint with fire-clay, place the cover on, and bolt it down.

  A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

• The water is kept from running into the receiver by a ring of damp fire-clay.

  A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

• Before kindling the furnace, its inner surface is smeared over with a cream-consistenced mixture of fire-clay and water.

  A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure