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Potter's wheel   /pˈɑtərz wil/   Listen
noun
Potter  n.  
1.
One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. "The potter heard, and stopped his wheel."
2.
One who hawks crockery or earthenware. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
One who pots meats or other eatables.
4.
(Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
Potter's asthma (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; so called because very prevalent among potters.
Potter's clay. See under Clay.
Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in
Potter's ore. See Alquifou.
Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel."
Potter wasp (Zool.), a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvae, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.





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"Potter's wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... expanded by Shakespeare, and taken up by Keats; his comparison of Poetry to Painting; his delineation of an honest critic. Brief phrases which have become classical abound. The "purple patch" sewn on to a sober narrative; the wine jar turning to a pitcher as the potter's wheel revolves; the injunction to keep a book ten years before you publish it; the near kinship of terseness to obscurity; the laughable outcome of a mountain's labour; the warning to be chary of bringing gods upon the stage; the occasional nod of Homer;—are commonplace citations so ...
— Horace • William Tuckwell
... The potter's wheel did not exist in the western world, but it was almost invented. Time and muscle, knack and touch, a trained eye and brain and an unlimited array of patterns hanging on fancy's walls, aided by a box of dry sand, were competent to give the charming results. No more ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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