hornito
9.9
A small clay oven used to bake bread and fire pottery
- noun
- /ɔrˈniːtoʊ/
- Specialized
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hornito
- Fresh bread was baked every morning in the old hornito behind the house.
Examples
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The potter used a hornito to fire her clay sculptures.
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They learned traditional techniques for using a hornito during the pottery workshop.
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The artisan built a hornito in her garden to fire her handmade pottery.
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We built a traditional hornito for our pottery class.
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The artisan built a hornito in her garden to fire her handmade pottery.
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Fresh bread was baked every morning in the old hornito behind the house.
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They learned traditional techniques for using a hornito during the pottery workshop.
Synonyms
16
6.3
A hot oven for drying and making things like pottery or bricks hard
is smaller, clay or brick built and used traditionally for pottery
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hornito comes from Spanish horno 'oven' with the small ending -ito to mean 'little oven'. So a hornito is a small clay or brick oven used for baking or firing pottery.