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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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Etymology of 'Potter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Potter" Quotes from Famous Books

... some fresh misfortune occurred, the most vexatious of all being one which seems due to Palissy's own carelessness. The mortar used by the potter in building his kiln was full of small pebbles, and when the oven became very hot these pebbles split, and mixed with the glaze. Then the enamel was spread over the earthen pots (which at last were properly baked), and the surface of each vessel, instead of being absolutely ...

— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang

... he speaks as a man: for in the ninth chapter of the same epistle he expressly teaches that God has mercy on whom He will, and that men are without excuse, only because they are in God's power like clay in the hands of a potter, who out of the same lump makes vessels, some for honour and some for dishonour, not because they have been forewarned. (3) As regards the Divine natural law whereof the chief commandment is, as we have said, to love God, I have called it a law in the same sense, as philosophers style laws those ...

— A Theologico-Political Treatise [Part IV] • Benedict de Spinoza

... me, I thank thee, sire. What thou hast done and doest thou know'st well, And I will help thee:—gently in thy fire I will lie burning; on thy potter's-wheel I will whirl patient, though my brain should reel; Thy grace shall be enough the grief to quell, And growing strength perfect through ...

— A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul • George MacDonald

... my heart was stone; I could neither hope nor pray; Poor Tom lay out in the Potter's Field, and my boy had gone astray; My boy who'd been my idol, while, like hound athirst for blood, Between my breaking heart and him the liquor seller stood, And lured him on with pleasant words, his pleasures ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

... the river side stood the rambling buildings belonging to Jabez Potter, who kept the Red Mill. The great wheel beside the mill end of the main structure had not yet begun to turn, but there was plenty of bustle about the ...

— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson

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