To be busy in doing little, or what is of little or no practical value; busy one's self over trifles; trifle; work with little energy or purpose.

To hobble; walk slowly and with difficulty; move slowly; loiter.

To walk upon or leap from piece to piece of floating ice. Bartlett. [Local, U.S.]

To poke; push; disturb.

noun. One whose occupation is the making of pots or earthenware vessels of any kind.

noun. One who peddles earthenware or crockery.

noun. One who pots meats, vegetables, etc.

noun. A fresh-water clemmyoid turtle, Deirochelys serrata, of the United States.

noun. The slider, or red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rugosa. See slider. [Local, U. S.]

noun. In a larger sense, any earth used in the ceramic art, including kaolin, a so-called blue clay which is of a grayish color and when fired is white, and a black clay so called, which also results in a white biscuit.

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

intransitive verb. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.

transitive verb. To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.

noun. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.

noun. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

noun. One who pots meats or other eatables.

noun. The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.

noun. emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters.

noun. See under Clay.

noun. 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.

noun. See Alquifou.

noun. a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools.

noun. 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.

verb. To poke repeatedly.

verb. To act in a vague or unmotivated way.

verb. To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around)

noun. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.

noun. God, the creator.

noun. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.

verb. work lightly

verb. move around aimlessly

verb. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

noun. a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln

"It should be remembered that throwing is a highly-skilled technique, and usually requires years of practice before the potter deserves to be called a “master potter”."

potter's field  potters' clay  potters' lathe  potters' ore  potters' wheel  

potter about  potter around  potter’s clay  potter’s field  potter’s rot  

busy  move  occupy  

Trotter  blotter  cotter  dotter  hotter  

Ronald  artificer  baker  biever  blacksmith  

beguile the time  bother  burn daylight  ceramicist  ceramist  

terrapin  

pottered  pottering  potters