DCHP-3

clay cat

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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rolls or blocks of wet clay used as bricks in the building of one kind of chimney in colonial times.

Quotations

1853
The clay-cats are then kneaded strongly round the rings, and all the interstices well filled up; some well-tempered clay is plastered inside the chimney, which . . . soon hardens and reddens by the heat of the fire.