sagger


Also found in: Wikipedia.

sag·ger

also sag·gar  (săg′ər)
n.
1. A protective casing of fire clay in which delicate ceramic articles are fired.
2. Clay used to make ceramic casings.

[Perhaps alteration of safeguard.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
They include mortars of varying calibers, recoilless rifles, "Dushka" 12.7mm heavy machine guns and anti-tank missiles ranging from the relatively antiquated wire-guided Sagger to more modern systems such as the laser beam-guided Kornet.
This is happening in the kiln anyway but, with the use of the sagger, this effect becomes more controllable.
But when a tip-off led police to his home, they found a Soviet AT3 anti-tank "Sagger" rocket launcher and a 9mm German Luger pistol from World War I.
Well, as far as I can recall Dan, a sagger was a ceramic box used to hold pottery for firing in a kiln and therefore a sagger-maker was a man who made saggers.
The author describes and illustrates the more primitive and inexpensive technologies of raku, sagger, sawdust, pit, and above-ground firing.
In other words, the collapsing car absorbed some of the force of Sagger's fall.
IT takes a certain strength of character to admit when asked "what do you do for a living" - to reply "I'm a sagger maker's bottom knocker".
He made the sagger - a container used in the process of making pottery.
Fictional MP Paul Sagger is accused by The Bill of looting an antique dagger from a museum in Baghdad.
Superintendent Heaton and MP Paul Sagger escape injury when gunshots are fired at their car.
A POTS about to be fired were put in a case - or sagger - to stop them being scorched and ruined.