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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



... personal bias and prejudices, enabling me to see clearer and with wider sympathies. The glamour of modern science and discoveries faded away, for I found them no more than the first potter's wheel. Erasure and reception proceeded together; the past accumulations of casuistry were erased, and my thought widened to receive the idea of something beyond all previous ideas. With disbelief, belief increased. The aspiration and hope, the prayer, ...
— The Story of My Heart • Richard Jefferies
... into the clear space between the white and the violet, and now he saw that the effect upon the pool was still more pronounced. The waters were rising up in a rim all around, and yet not overflowing. They were standing up like a bowl of clay upon the potter's wheel, and down in the depths Jim could see the head and shoulders of Tode, much less magnified, more natural in appearance, and less blurred. And Tode was looking up at him and pointing that infernal mechanism at him—something that looked like ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various
... of the primeval, creative Power, he is described as "the maker of things which are, the creator of things which shall be, the source of created things, the father of fathers, and the mother of mothers." It was he who, according to one legend, fashioned man upon a potter's wheel. ...
— Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life • E. A. Wallis Budge
... a little city made rich by vast potteries. If the dull, heavy clay on the potter's wheel and in the fiery oven could think and speak, it would doubtless cry out against the fierce agony; but if it could foresee the purpose of the potter, and the thing of use and beauty he meant to make it, it would nestle low under his hand and ...
— When the Holy Ghost is Come • Col. S. L. Brengle
... took him next to the potter's wheel, where cups and saucers were made out of clay; and the giant learned to be steady, to shape the cup as the wheel whirled round, and to take heed of ...
— Mother Stories • Maud Lindsay


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