First recorded in 1750–60
First recorded in 1825–35
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His whole breast was zebraed with white marks, done with pipe clay.
From Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen by Verne, Jules
When well on the feed they will bite, even at the pipe clay and bare hook, faster than they can be hauled inboard.
From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney
I also took the opportunity of collecting a store of pipe clay, as I intended during the winter months, which were close at hand, to try my hand at china making.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
As the water grew shoaler I could see an even pipe clay bottom, on which our boat grounded an hundred yards from the shore.
From Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824. by Collins, Daniel
In Alum Bay the strata consist of sands, yellow, grey, white, and crimson, with clays, and bands of pipe clay.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil
Tell Raban, if you see him, that I am getting on very well, and that, far from being a black sheep here, no lambskin can compare with my pipe-clay.'
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
There are many other varieties of clay-rocks—such as fire-clay, pipe-clay, marl, loam, &c.—which are sufficiently familiar.
From Geology by Geikie, James
Equally popular is the adornment of the body by colored marks made with red ocher, pipe-clay, turmeric, charcoal, and such like things as are furnished by nature.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris
Crouch-ware, krowch′-wār, n. a finely finished pottery made with an admixture of pipe-clay in Shropshire: the famous salt-glazed stoneware made at Burslem.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Great preparations were made, as for a grand corrobory, or festival, the men divesting themselves of even the portions of clothing commonly worn, and painting their naked black bodies in a hideous manner with pipe-clay.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
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