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Potter   /pˈɑtər/   Listen
noun
Pother  n.  (Written also potter, and pudder)  Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. "What a pother and stir!" "Coming on with a terrible pother."


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



... perhaps, possibly lacking breadth. No, the Pipkin is a pipkin, made of common clay—even though it has the uncommon sweetness and strength to overcome the tendencies of clay—and fashioned for those common uses of life, deprivation of which to anything that comes from the Potter's hands is the most ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... certainly not yet so highly developed that cavalry units could be used in war. With horse-breeding the two-wheeled light war chariot makes its appearance. The wheel was already known in earlier times in the form of the potter's wheel. Recent excavations have brought to light burials in which up to eighteen chariots with two or four horses were found together with the owners of the chariots. The cart is not a Chinese invention ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard
... Benjamin Potter, known to their intimate friends as Pork and Beans Potter, were twins painfully alike in thought, word and deed as well as size and looks. They sat side by side. Each boy leaned his right elbow on his right knee and supported his chin on ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine
... so that as one passes from case to case a picture of the human life of the past is presented as nearly perfect as can be constructed out of that part of the handiwork of the people which has escaped decay. Here can be seen and studied the many singular results of the potter's art, simple and complex in form and varied in style of ornament; carvings in stone, shell, and bone; implements and ornaments of stone, shell, bone, mica, clay, copper, and other substances; fragments of cloth and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 • Various
... thrown power aside with the staff of command. Power! It too was potter's trash, which a stone might shatter, a flower in full bloom, whose leaves drop apart if touched by the finger! It was no noble ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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