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# crockery

«crockery» in Mova's school dictionary: **plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Crockery is plates, cups, bowls and dishes made of baked clay or china. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

the dishes and cups of a house, often in stories broken or left lying about

### examples

- Then he stumbled against a piece of broken crockery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x1)
- She washed the crockery after supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x2)
- The crockery is stacked on the kitchen shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a count of plates is a count of separate pieces, and the word does not say how many there are.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crockery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crockery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.