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POTTER
potter, thrower, ceramicist, ceramist
(noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter’s wheel and bakes them it a kiln
putter, potter, potter around, putter around
(verb) move around aimlessly
putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around
(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; “The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house”
potter, putter
(verb) work lightly; “The old lady is pottering around in the garden”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
potter (plural potters)
One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
One who pots meats or other eatables.
One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
Synonyms
• (Pseudemys rubriventris): northern red-bellied cooter
• (maker of ceramics): ceramicist
Etymology 2
Verb
potter (third-person singular simple present potters, present participle pottering, simple past and past participle pottered)
(British) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
(British) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
(obsolete) To poke repeatedly.
Noun
Potter (plural Potters)
A person from Stoke-on-Trent
(soccer) someone connected with Stoke City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Proper noun
Potter (plural Potters)
An English occupational surname for a potter.
Source: Wiktionary
Pot"ter, n. Etym: [Cf. F. potier.]
1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. Longfellow.
2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.
3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers.
– 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 Matt. xxvii. 7.
– 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." Shak. Potter wasp (Zoöl.), a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.
Pot"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pottered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pottering.] Etym: [Cf. W. pwtio to poke, or OD. poteren to search one thoroughly, Sw. pĂĄta, peta, to pick, E. pother, put.]
1. To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother. Pottering about the Mile End cottages. Mrs. Humphry Ward.
2. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
Pot"ter, v. t.
Definition: To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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