free-blown

[ free-blohn ]

adjective

(of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold.

Origin of free-blown

¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Compare blow-molded, offhand (def. 5).

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How to use free-blown in a sentence

The earliest bottles were free-blown without the constraint of a mold, hence there were many variations in shape.
The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia | C. Malcolm Watkins

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