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Potter   /pˈɑtər/   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.



verb
Potter  v. t.  To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. (Prov. Eng.)



Potter  v. i.  (past & past part. pottered; pres. part. pottering)  
1.
To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to putter; to pother.
Synonyms: putter; pother. "Pottering about the Mile End cottages."
2.
To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.






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"Potter" Quotes from Famous Books



... you don't forget, miss," she said gayly. "Good-bye, Judy; don't be late for lunch, for it's short and sweet with us real artists. We can't potter over our food like ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

... dictate to the Almighty? Shall the clay say to the potter, "Why hast thou made me thus?" Who art thou, O man, that repliest against God? Let God work in His own way; and when the Holy Ghost comes, let Him mark out a way for Himself. We must be willing to submit, and to do what the Lord tells us, ...
— Men of the Bible • Dwight Moody

... was made of clay and baked. Then the artist painted figures on it with colored earth. This was so long ago that men had not learned to draw very well, but we like the vase because the potter made it such a beautiful shape, and because we learn from it how the warriors of early Mycenae dressed. Under their armor they wore short chitons with fringe at the bottom, and long sleeves, and they carried strangely shaped shields and short spears or long lances. Do you think those ...
— Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae • Jennie Hall

... mortars of white clay, found on the site of the present union, one bearing the word "fecit," though the maker's name was lost. Portions also of Samian ware have been found, one stamped with a leopard and stag, another bearing part of the potter's name, ILIANI; with fragments of hand-mills, fibulae, &c. {7b} The present writer has two jars, or bottles, of buff coloured ware, of which about a dozen were dug up when the foundations of the workhouse were being laid in 1838, they are probably Samian, ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... married a poor workman, who was earning so little with the potter who employed him that he could not support his household. He listened to my advice, and actually had sufficient courage to take a lease of our tile-works, when he had not so much as a penny. He came and took up his abode here, taught his wife, her aged mother, and his own mother how to make ...
— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac


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