| 1. | Usually, wares.
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| 2. | a specified kind or class of merchandise or of manufactured article (usually used in combination): silverware; glassware. |
| 3. | pottery, or a particular kind of pottery: delft ware. |
| 4. | Archaeology. a group of ceramic types classified according to paste and texture, surface modification, as burnish or glaze, and decorative motifs rather than shape and color. |
