shapable

Updated: June 13, 2025

Besides this, I arrived at an unexpected perfection in my earthen-ware, and contrived well enough to make them with a wheel, which I found infinitely easier and better; because I made things round and shapable, which before were filthy things indeed to look on.

Daniel Defoe - The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe,: Written By Himself, in Two Volumes