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/pˈɑtərz wil/ Listen

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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"Potter's wheel" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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