(n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.
(n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.
Example Sentences:
(1) The downpour continued during the morning, leaving much of the ground under water, and the umpires Neil Bainton and Martin Saggers decided shortly after 10am that there was no prospect of play.
(2) Use of custom-made sagger trays giving support to long-span fixed partial dentures at the ends and within the span is desirable for both degassing and porcelain firing, regardless of whether or not the connectors are cast or soldered.
(3) However, the physiological strain experienced by even the workers who remain inside the kiln for unloading the saggers for 10 min or more at a tiem before coming out for a spell of rest was not excessive, except in a few cases.
Sauger
Definition:
(n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cones in the retinas of two closely related species of perch, the walleye and sauger (S, vitreum vitreum and S. canadense), are remarkably large.
(2) the yellow perch (Perca flavescens), the walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) and the sauger (S. canadense), were studied in situ using a microspectrophotometer-computer complex.
(3) The yellow perch inhabits mostly shallow, clear waters while the walleye and sauger prefer turbid waters.
(4) is at 530 nm in the yellow perch, 533 nm in the walleye and at 536 in the sauger.