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noun

Potter n.

1.

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

2.

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

3.

One who pots meats or other eatables.

4.

(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.

verb

Potter v. t. To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. (Prov. Eng.)

Potter v. i. (past & past part. pottered; pres. part. pottering)

1.

To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to putter; to pother.

Synonyms: putter; pother. "Pottering about the Mile End cottages."

2.

To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.

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Etymology of 'Potter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... universal in Ethiopia. The sheep are sacred to him, of which there were large flocks in the Thebaid, kept for their wool. And the serpent or asp, a sign of kingly dominion,—hence called basilisk,—is sacred to Kneph. As Creator, he appears under the figure of a potter with a wheel. In Philae he is so represented, forming on his wheel a figure of Osiris, with the inscription, "Num, who forms on his wheel the Divine Limbs of Osiris." He is also called the Sculptor of all men, also the ...

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... he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received ...

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... Once started, it became the duke's special pet and pride. His immense energy had found a new fad—that of the schoolmaster. He was bent on having a model training-school for the public service. In his own house, under his own eye, he proposed to mould the future servants of the state like potter's clay. In this way he would have them as he wanted them. To provide the clay for his experiment he began to look around for promising boys, and thus his eye fell on Friedrich Schiller. Summoning the father and making some gracious inquiries, he offered to provide for the boy's education at ...

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... would only arise if we supposed that the man and the monkey had existed before they were created, and had then possessed claims to equal treatment. The most logical theologians, indeed, admit that as between creature and creator there can be properly no question of justice. The pot and the potter cannot complain of each other. If the writer of Job had been able to show that the virtuous were rewarded and the vicious punished, he would only have transferred the problem to another issue. The judge might be justified, ...

— Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies • Sir Leslie Stephen

... lighted the match. It was all part of an organized scheme, and though he did not know how Coryndon would bring the facts home, fitting each man with his share, like a second skin to his body, he felt satisfied that he had provided the lump of clay for the skilled potter ...

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