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noun

Potter n.

One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. "The potter heard, and stopped his wheel."

One who hawks crockery or earthenware. (Prov. Eng.)

One who pots meats or other eatables.

(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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... "I would keep the potter's field in decent order, and defray the funeral expenses of murderers and paupers. That would be putting liquor money to a legitimate use, making it defray its own ...

— Three People • Pansy

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... Potter's Field. Behold the fate Of those who deal in Witchcrafts, and, when questioned, Refuse to plead their guilt or innocence, And stubbornly drag death ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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... Napoleon; I wandered through his palaces at Versailles and Fontainebleau with all of their magnificence and splendor, and I recalled the period of his power and glory among men, and yet, he too died. Then I passed a Potter's field and I looked upon the graves of the unknown, graves of the pauper and the pleb, and I realized that they were at last equal, those who slept in Valhalla and those who slept in the common burying-ground, and that they would each and all hear the first or the second trump ...

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... experience. The minor details vary slightly, but the story is the same piteous tale of woe everywhere, and crime abounding, conditions which only change to a prison, a plunge in the river, or the Potter's field. ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

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... the bending lane that ran along the north side of Washington Square, then the Potter's Field, may be read "Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor." The land thus marked extends from what is now Waverly Place to what is now Ninth Street. In 1790 Captain Robert Richard Randall paid five thousand pounds sterling for twenty-one acres of good ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

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... "The babies came, and I was so proud of them! Then the fever broke out. I went to get medicine when she and the little ones were so sick, and I got on a spree—I don't remember—but when I came to, they showed me their graves in the potter's field; they said the medicine might have saved them. Oh, Job, I can't think! It ...

— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher

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