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potter(1) (iou)



potter noun1. LOE.
[from POT noun1 + -ER1.]
A maker of earthenware pots or vessels. LOE.
b. A maker of metal pots or vessels. rare. LME-M16.
A vendor or hawker of earthenware. Also, a vagrant; a Gypsy. north. L15.
Comb.: potter's clay, potter's earth clay free from iron and so suitable for making earthenware; potter's field [after Matthew 27: 7] a burial place for paupers, strangers, etc.; potter's lathe: see LATHE noun3 2; potter's lead, potter's ore lead ore used for glazing pottery, galena; potter's rot, potters' rot silicosis or other lung disease caused by the continued inhalation of dust in a pottery; potter wasp a wasp which builds a cell or cells of clay, as several of the genus Eumenes; potter's wheel a horizontal revolving disc mounted on a potter's lathe, on which prepared clay is moulded into shape.