Definition of "ewre"

[…] paying therfore [...] vnto the said Abbott & convent & their successours at the grownde wheare the said Leade ewre or cooles bee or shalbe dygged or gotten three loodes of Ewre of Coole or Leade at & of euery xxi loodes […]

1554, document quoted in 1898, England and Wales. Court of Requests, Great Britain. Court of Requests, Isaac Saunders Leadam, Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, A.D. 1497-1569, page 202

[…] the slagge of Iron to melt and purify Iron Ewre for which also Lyme and ashes of wood, and dust of char-coale, are used; and for small trialls, arsnicke, sulpher, vitriol, tartar, salt-gemme, salt-niter, and stybrum […]

1665, Dud Dudley, Dud Dudley's Metallum Martis: Or, Iron Made with Pit-coale, Sea-coale, &c: And with the Same Fuell to Melt and Fine Imperfect Mettals, and Refine Perfect Mettals, page 23

Wee are able to melt it w'th two fornises in the space of 40 weekes the quantitie of 560 tonne of ewre if wee might have it, and if the ewre be clean and well sorted the mor copper it will yeld.

1881, George Grant Francis, The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales

Basyns and Ewres. First, 2 gilt basyns […] Itm, 4 ewres of siluer, with lyke tokens on the lyddes, […]

1512, inventory of The Jowell House, quoted in 1875, Charles Mathew Clode, Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of the Fraternity of St. John the Baptist, in the City of London, page 88

[…] Candlesticks, Basons and Ewres, upon the high Altar, and ducking to them every time a man comes into the Church, or goes out, or stirs, […]

1660, Parliament petit, Reasons shewing the necessity of reformation of the publick 1. doctrine, 2. worship, 3. rites and ceremonies, 4. Church-government, and discipline ... humbly offered to the serious considerations of this present parliament by divers ministers of sundry counties in England [ed. by C. Burges]. [Another]