Category:Potter

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.)

Defn: 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.

Potter 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. påta, 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.

Potter Pot"ter, v. t.

Defn: to poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.