Definition of Saggers

1. sagger [v] - See also: sagger

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saggers

sagest
sagey
saggar
saggar maker
saggar maker's bottom knocker
saggar maker's bottom knockers
saggard
saggards
saggared
saggaring
saggars
sagged
sagger
saggered
saggering
saggers (current term)
saggier
saggiest
sagginess
sagging
saggingly
saggings
saggy
saggy trousers
sagier
sagiest
sagina
saginas
saginate
saginated

Literary usage of Saggers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"John saggers, the testator in the cause, died in 1803, leaving a will, by which he gave the income of his residuary personal estate to his wife for her life ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"To anneal the hard castings they are placed into so-called "saggers' or annealing pots. These are simple, box-like shells, with no bottom, about one inch ..."

3. Notes on the Manufacture of Earthenware by Ernest Albert Sandeman (1901)
"saggers AND SAGGER-MAKING. BEFORE proceeding to placing and firing, the manufacturing of saggers must be referred to. Ware neither in the biscuit nor in the ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... is completed, the til« ate placed in fire-clay boxes, known as "saggers," containing from eight to ten each, which are then stacked, one upon another, ..."

5. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1909)
"The saggers used for electrical porcelain are mostly round saggers 12 inches ... With machine- made saggers we find that they do not go to pieces quite as ..."

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