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Found 1 definition: potter.

Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun potter has 1 senses

potter(n = noun.person) ceramicist, ceramist, thrower - a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln;
is a kind of artificer, artisan, craftsman, journeyman
has particulars: josiah spode, spode, josiah wedgwood, wedgwood

Verb potter has 3 senses

1. potter(v = verb.contact) mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
is one way to work
Derived form noun potterer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

2. potter(v = verb.social) putter - work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"
is one way to busy, occupy
Derived form noun potterer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

3. potter(v = verb.contact) potter around, putter, putter around - move around aimlessly;
is one way to move
Derived form noun potterer₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

potter, n. [Cf. F. potier.].

1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster]
"The potter heard, and stopped his wheel." [1913 Webster]

2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. De Quincey. [1913 Webster]

3. One who pots meats or other eatables. [1913 Webster]

4. The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. [1913 Webster]

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, v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]
"Pottering about the Mile End cottages." [1913 Webster]

2. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter. [1913 Webster]

potter, v. t.

To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

potter, v. (US putter)
1 intr. a (often foll. by about, around) work or occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant manner (likes pottering about in the garden). b (often foll. by at, in) dabble in a subject or occupation.
2 intr. go slowly, dawdle, loiter (pottered up to the pub).
3 tr. (foll. by away) fritter away (one's time etc.).

Derivative:
potterer n.

potter, n. a maker of ceramic vessels.

Idiom:
potter's field a burial place for paupers, strangers, etc. (after Matt. 27:7). potter's wheel a horizontal revolving disc to carry clay for making pots.

Etymology:
OE pottere (as POT(1))

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Inactivity

VB be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch, loll, lollop, lounge, poke, loaf, loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in, peddle, piddle, potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle, dally, dilly-dally, sleep, slumber, be asleep, hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly, heavily, doze, drowze, snooze, nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep, nod, yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's, languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire, relax, render idle, sluggardize, mitigate.