fireclay

See also: fire clay

English

Noun

fireclay (countable and uncountable, plural fireclays)

Alternative spelling of fire clay
- 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
  On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.

References

“fireclay”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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