potter

1. n. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Source: opted

2. n. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. Source: opted

3. n. One who pots meats or other eatables. Source: opted

4. n. The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Source: opted

5. v. i. To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother. Source: opted

6. v. i. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter. Source: opted

7. v. t. To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. Source: opted

8. n. a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln Source: wordnet

9. v. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly Source: wordnet

10. v. work lightly Source: wordnet

11. v. move around aimlessly Source: wordnet

12. 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.) 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. 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. To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Source: webster

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