Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hollowmeat . - noun China, glass, and other wares in the form of cups, tumblers, tea-pots, etc.: in distinction from
flat ware , such as plates, saucers, or the like.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hollow-ware.
Examples
-
Fine crystal, sterling silver flatware, sterling hollow-ware, table linens,crystal decanters full of wine and spirits setting on a marble topped sideboard, china and porcelain table settings ...
"Selling was an intellectual pleasure, an art form" for Josiah Wedgwood. Ann Althouse 2009
-
Mammy picked it up wherever she found it, beat it fine and used it on everything -- shelves, floors, hollow-ware, milk pans, piggins, cedar water buckets -- it made their brass hoops shine like gold.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
-
Dar pedidos para ferretería, ollería, y maquinaría: To give orders for ironware, hollow-ware and machinery.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
-
We have already manufacturing communities so well supplied with tasks for brains and hands, that everybody works, or would do so but for Circe and her seductive hollow-ware.
-
The very first hollow-ware casting made in America is said to be still in existence.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
-
He had laid aside nothing, and his movements were attended by the usual rattle of hollow-ware.
Barlasch of the Guard Henry Seton Merriman 1882
-
In fact, it is because connubial bliss beats every other species of felicity all hollow that we have met this evening to requite it with hollow-ware.
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way William Pittenger 1872
-
We welcome you heartily to our home, well knowing that your kind wishes are not like -- your useful and elegant tokens of remembrance -- _hollow-ware_.
Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way William Pittenger 1872
-
Formerly they manufactured more than at present -- having made at one time, for the general market, steel, leather, hollow-ware, pipes, and woolen yarn.
The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation Charles Nordhoff 1865
-
For corn-shovels and wooden dishes it is preferred to the red flowering maples, because it is lighter and less liable to split; consequently, hollow-ware and other articles made of it sell at higher prices.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.