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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.] 1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii. 9. The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. --Longfellow. 2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De Quincey. 3. One who pots meats or other eatables. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The red-bellied terrapin. See {Terrapin}. {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. [bd]My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.[b8] --Shak. {Potter wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larv[91], such as cankerworms, as food for its young. | |
