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Definition of Blunger
1. n. A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi&?;ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
Definition of Blunger
1. Noun. the apparatus used for blunging (mixing clay with water to make pottery) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blunger
1. one that blunges [n -S] - See also: blunges
Medical Definition of Blunger
1. A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for miing the clay in potteries; a plunger. Origin: Corrupted from plunger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blunger
Literary usage of Blunger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Clayworker's Hand-book: A Manual for All Engaged in the Manufacture of by Alfred Broadhead Searle (1906)
"If an octagonal blunger is used, the eddies caused by the corners prevent the
rotation of the material and so secure its being better mixed. ..."
2. Treatise on Ceramic Industries: A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile and by Emile Bourry, Wilton P. Rix (1901)
"It frequently happens that when the working of the blunger is stopped for some
time the clay in suspension settles and forms with the grit a fairly hard ..."
3. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1909)
"As to the question of adding dry scrap in the pug, it is simply a clay of different
temper and it pays to put it back into the blunger. ..."
4. Potters, Their Arts and Crafts by John Charles Lewis Sparkes, Walter Gandy (1897)
"The ingredients—we will speak of those for earthenware—having been prepared
separately (the ball clay and kaolin in the blunger, the calcined flint and ..."
5. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1893)
"The use of steam in assisting to disintegrate the clay in the blunger has been
... If steaming the blunger increases the speed of the operation as it is ..."
6. Clays, Their Occurrence, Properties, and Uses: With Especial Reference to by Heinrich Reis (1908)
"The blunger consists of a circular vat in which there revolves two arms with
stirring-rods attached. la this the clay mixture and water become thoroughly ..."
7. The Encyclopedia of Ceramics by William Percival Jervis (1902)
"The azure blue of the Chinese, made about AD 945, and also known as Tch'ai.
Fragments of it are as highly esteemed by the Chinese as jewels. blunger. ..."
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