The craft, process, or occupation of making dishes; the production or manufacture of dishware.
Gerund form of the compound verb 'dish-make,' combining 'dish' with 'making' (from Old English 'macung'). This term emerged with industrialization to describe the systematic production of tableware.
In 18th-century Staffordshire, dishmaking innovations in ceramics drove the Industrial Revolution in England—a simple word that represented cutting-edge technology of its time.
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