Potter
['pɒtə] or ['pɑtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln.
(verb.) work lightly; 'The old lady is pottering around in the garden'.
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Definition
(n.) One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
(n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
(n.) One who pots meats or other eatables.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
(v. i.) To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
(v. i.) To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
(v. t.) To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Trifle, PUTTER, busy one's self about trifles.
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Definition
v.i. to be fussily engaged about trifles: to loiter.—n. Pott′erer.
n. one who makes earthenware.—n. Pott′ery earthenware vessels: a place where earthenware is manufactured: the business of a potter.—Potter's clay clay used in the making of earthenware; Potter's field a burial-place for strangers (Matt. xxvii. 7); Potter's wheel a horizontal wheel on which clay vessels are shaped.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a potter, denotes constant employment, with satisfactory results. For a young woman to see a potter, foretells she will enjoy pleasant engagements.
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Examples
- In fact, Potter and Willcox were the only division commanders Burnside had who were equal to the occasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Potter joined Hancock by way of the wooden bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And the result will be that he becomes a worse potter? Plato. The Republic.
- Among other celebrated inventors of printing presses in the United States were Isaac Adams, Taylor, Gordon, Potter, Hawkins, Bullock, Cottrell, Campbell, Babcock, and Firm. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is impossible, after reading them, not to consider the poor potter one of the greatest writers of the French language. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The process is as follows: When a potter becomes rich, will he, think you, any longer take the same pains with his art? Plato. The Republic.
- Charles Aoisseau, the potter of Tours, born in 1796, rediscovered and revived the art of Palissy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There were men who worked wood and leather, potters and carvers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Did you never observe in the arts how the potters' boys look on and help, long before they touch the wheel? Plato. The Republic.
- Heat distorts articles made of potters' clay after they have been hardened by cold. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Parents will take their children to look on at a battle, just as potters' boys are trained to the business by looking on at the wheel. Plato. The Republic.
- By th' twenty-first, I reckon, he'll be pottered in his brains how to get 'em done in time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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