Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Iron utensils with a mottled enamel resembling granite.
  • noun Earthenware with a speckled glaze resembling granite.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any fine pottery decorated by a more or less exact imitation of the speckled surface of granite; specifically, one of Josiah Wedgwood's pebble-wares, described by him in 1770 as “barely sprinkled with blue” and ornaments gilt.” See pebbleware.
  • noun A fine pottery similar to ironstone china, referring to its supposed hardness.
  • noun A variety of enameled ironware much used for utensils of cookery, in which the enamel is gray and stone-like, and very durable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Ironware that has been coated with a layer of vitreous enamel with a swirled or speckled pattern resembling granite.
  • noun Pottery with the same type of enamel coating.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a kind of stone-grey enamelware

Etymologies

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granite +‎ -ware

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Examples

  • I bought knives, forks, and spoons, graniteware dishes and mugs.

    The Yellow Peril 2010

  • The ones I bought were the speckled blue graniteware variety.

    Plastic Elimination Campaign: Kid's Dishes regina doman 2007

  • But I think what you are referring to are Italian style espresso cups in enamel, presumably more decorative than plain graniteware.

    Plastic Elimination Campaign: Kid's Dishes regina doman 2007

  • And I have that same graniteware canning pot, purchased this year to make cherry jam.

    Sauce and Pickles « Fairegarden 2008

  • I furnished the coffee, custom-ground Colombian beans brewed in a fifties-era graniteware coffeepot with the original Bakelite knob.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • I furnished the coffee, custom-ground Colombian beans brewed in a fifties-era graniteware coffeepot with the original Bakelite knob.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • She frowned and watched as he poured some coffee from a gray-speckied graniteware pot.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • Montana lined one of the graniteware pans with a blanket and gently placed the weakest chicks inside.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • He started a fire, then poured water from his canteen into the small, graniteware coffeepot he carried with him.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

  • He started a fire, then poured water from his canteen into the small, graniteware coffeepot he carried with him.

    Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991

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