In fact, there is an entire section in the clay-shop devoted to nothing but sagger making.
Is the same sort of clay sagger used for the glazed as well as for the unglazed wares?
This time, however, it is a more difficult matter to pack it into the saggers since it must neither touch the sides of the saggernor come in contact with any other piece.
Bats and props are best made of sagger clay to which has been added about one-third of crushed fire-brick.
A cream or buff body is all that is necessary, therefore, and the foundation of this is a clay known as sagger clay.
Presently one after another of the boys followed suit, leaving Jack Sagger to sneak home, a sadder if not a wiser lad.
Joe, I hear that Jack Saggeris going to make it warm for you," said Frank, one Monday afternoon.
That Sagger is certainly on the downward path," said Frank.
Den you have got to fight," and Jack Sagger began to pull up his rather dirty coat sleeves.
As Jack Sagger uttered the last words he launched a blow at Joe's nose.
Thus urged Jack Saggerstruck out once more, landing on Joe's chest.
Jack Sagger was "mad clear through," and he attributed his discharge solely to Joe.
Sagger came to me yesterday and wanted to be taken back, but I told him no--that I wouldn't have such an impudent fellow around.
What Frank said was true, and less than a week later they heard through another hotel boy that Jack Sagger had been arrested for stealing some lead pipe out of a vacant residence.
At the corner the Sagger crowd was waiting for him.
As it happened the entire party under Jack Sagger walked toward the unfinished building and came to a halt directly under the scaffolding.
Jack Sagger and some other boys followed me up and wanted to polish me off.
Sagger received a crack on the shoulder that lamed him for a week, and Sammel tripped and went down, taking the skin off of the end of his nose.
In some manner it leaked out among the boys that Joe was going to the wedding, and two days before the affair came off Jack Saggerlearned of it.
There was a pause and Sagger sprang forward, trying to catch Joe around the arms.
The bottom of the upper sagger forms the lid of its fellow below; and the junction of the two is luted with a ring of soft clay applied between them.
The bottom of each sagger has some bits of flints sprinkled upon it, which become so adherent after the first firing as to form a multitude of little prominences for setting the ware upon, when this does not consist of plates.
The last sagger of each bung is covered with an unbaked one, three inches deep, in place of a round lid.
In this sagger are put fragments of porcelain intended to be withdrawn from time to time, in order to judge of the progress of the baking.
Every piece of porcelain requires a sagger for itself.
And the taxes will go up likewise," added Mr. Sagger with a scowl.
I guess old Sagger is afraid his taxes will go up.
Considering that the boys had worked hard at the Sagger blaze, Bert had no drills for a week.
For the same reason sagger lids sometimes were jacked up on small pads of clay, or the sagger rim scooped out here and there to let the fumes enter from the top.
The only real evidence of the Yorktown manufacturing process comes from the many sagger fragments that have been found around the town.
But it can be argued that the sagger pieces were scattered so liberally around the town that their presence in the builder's trench does not necessarily imply that the factory was still operating at that date.
Other kiln furniture found in Yorktown includes fragments of sagger lids having an average thickness of 3/4 of an inch and various lumps of clay which served as kiln pads and props.
Such a use of potters' refuse has ample precedent in that the wasters and sagger fragments from the 17th-century-London delftware kilns were dumped on the foreshore of the river Thames to serve the same purpose.
More sagger fragments were found in the backfilling of the builder's trench around the recently restored Digges House on Main Street, which the National Park Service believes to have been constructed in about 1760.
The quantity of sagger fragments from the vicinity of the Swan Tavern might have been associated in some way with the fact that Thomas Reynolds (see Watkins, p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sagger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
