potter
IPA: pˈɑtɝ
noun
- One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
- One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
- One who pots meats or other eatables.
- One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
- The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
- The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
- A person from Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
- (soccer) someone connected with Stoke City Football Club (in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK), as a fan, player, coach etc.
- An English surname originating as an occupation for a potter.
- A placename
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community and township in Polk County, Arkansas.
- A village in Cheyenne County, Nebraska.
- A town in Yates County, New York.
- A township in Barnes County, North Dakota.
- Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Beaver County and Centre County.
- A village in Calumet County, Wisconsin.
- Ellipsis of Potter County. [One of 67 counties in Pennsylvania, United States. County seat: Coudersport. Named after James Potter.]
verb
- (Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
- (Britain) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
- (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.
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Examples of "potter" in Sentences
- A village blacksmith or potter is a hard thing to live without.
- Harry potter is going to die as well as one of the weasly twins.
- The "potter" is significant of God's absolute power over the clay framed by His own hands (Isa 45: 9; Jer
- Liza Hempstock, a witch buried in potter’s field, shunned by most in the graveyard, but becoming an unusual acquaintance for Bod.
- 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.
- I formed monstrous shapes in potter's clay, or cut them in trees; I filled my notebooks and the margins of my books with rough sketches, and I spent more than one night crying without reason.
- This isn't an "action adventure" book; it's a quiet book, that takes place over almost two years, as Tree Ear learns that the craft of being a potter is more involved than simply sitting down at a potter's wheel.
- ChelsieSkyesx3 (8/18/2008 6: 49: 05 PM) the hp trailer was way better than the twilight trailer. so even though i was looking forward to twilight (AND STILL AM), i am actually pretty upset that harry potter is being pushed to a later date.
- Harry potter is way better as a book to because the films tend to repeat themselves and miss out huge chunks of the storyline which means you miss out on some of the cleverer character development and plot twists that J K Rowling builds into her books.
- What is most remarkable about this particular memory is that the decorations Cufassane recalls N'waXidyula producing in this manner exactly match those on a very old xikhuwana Lawton found in a museum in the eastern Transvaal in 1963, labelled as the work of an unknown "Nhlanganu" potter from the area.
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