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

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

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]

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]

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

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))

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.

collis potter huntington, conrad potter aiken, martha beatrice potter webb, potter around, potter bee, potter wasp

1.  clay(n = noun.substance) - a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired;
is a kind of dirt, soil
has particulars: adobe, argil, china clay, china stone, kaolin, kaoline, porcelain clay, terra alba, red clay, pipeclay, terra alba, bentonite, fireclay, kitty litter, potter's clay, potter's earth, daub

2.  clay(n = noun.substance) mud - water soaked soil; soft wet earth;
is a kind of dirt, soil
has particulars: bleaching clay, bleaching earth, mud pie, mire, slop

3.  clay(n = noun.person) lucius clay, lucius dubignon clay - United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978);
is a kind of full general, general

4.  clay(n = noun.person) henry clay, the great compromiser - United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852);
is a kind of pol, political leader, politician, politico

5.  clay(n = noun.body) cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff - the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"
is a kind of body, dead body
has particulars: cremains

1.  A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities. [1913 Webster]

2.  Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles. [1913 Webster]
"I also am formed out of the clay." [1913 Webster]
"The earth is covered thick with other clay,
Which her own clay shall cover." [1913 Webster]

1.  To cover or manure with clay. [1913 Webster]

2.  To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar. [1913 Webster]

clay, n.
1 a stiff sticky earth, used for making bricks, pottery, ceramics, etc.
2 poet. the substance of the human body.
3 (in full clay pipe) a tobacco-pipe made of clay.

Idiom:
clay-pan Austral. a natural hollow in clay soil, retaining water after rain. clay pigeon a breakable disc thrown up from a trap as a target for shooting.

Derivative:
clayey adj. clayish adj. claylike adj.

Etymology:
OE cl{aelig}g f. WG

N  materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

N  softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.

N  land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.

N  corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones, defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay, mummy, carrion, food for worms, food for fishes, tenement of clay this mortal coil, shade, ghost, manes, organic remains, fossils, cadaverous, corpse-like, unburied, sapromyiophyllous.

bleaching clay, boulder clay, cassius clay, cassius marcellus clay, china clay, clay pigeon, clay pipe, clay sculpture, henry clay, henry clay frick, indurated clay, lucius clay, lucius dubignon clay, pipe clay, porcelain clay, potter's clay, red clay, residual clay, sedimentary clay