Word Meanings - SAGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a segga. 2. The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

Related words: (words related to SAGGER)

• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• STONEWARE
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• SEGGAR
  A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is
• BAKISTRE
  A baker. Chaucer.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• BAKEN
  p. p. of Bake.
• BAKINGLY
  In a hot or baking manner.
• BAKE
  bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• BAKSHEESH; BAKSHISH
  See BACKSHEESH
• BAKER
  1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused
• BAKEHOUSE
  A house for baking; a bakery.
• INCLOSURE
  1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence. 2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up. Within
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• EREWHILE; EREWHILES
  Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore. I am as fair now as I was erewhile. Shak.
• HARDBAKE
  A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• AWHILE
  For a while; for some time; for a short time.
• HAWEBAKE
  Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. Chaucer.