containerware

Containers collectively.

Noun

  1. Containers collectively.
    • Two leading containerware companies, Owens-Illinois and Hazel-Atlas, and a leading noncontainer company, Corning Glass Works, uphold the Supreme Court’s decision in briefs replying to the government’s petition. - 1945...
    • Product identifications screen printed directly on bottles, jars, and other containers are rapidly replacing conventional labels. This is especially true of beverages, cosmetics, and household products packaged in glass...
    • Sands of lesser quality, suitable for coloured containerware, are also worked at Chelford and Congleton in Cheshire, Messingham in Lincolnshire and West Lothian in Scotland, all deposits which yield primarily foundry...

Origin

From container + -ware.