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Meanings of potter in English
Portuguese
oleiro Catalan
terrissaire 
A craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln.
Spanish
entretenerse Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.
Synonyms
Examples for "potter around"
Examples for "potter around"
1
I'll potter around this evening and build one behind the woodshed.
2
I'll potter around in the gardens, then read until the night shift comes on.'
3
Guess he wanted to potter around there a bit.
4
In the driveway, the family dogs potter around, looking for amusement on a bedraggled day.
5
Then she could potter around all she liked.
1
We putter around in an aimless sort of way and get nowhere.
2
No military discipline, lots of reading and things to putter around with.
3
And I just love to putter around in a kitchen.
4
I putter around my own place Saturdays and Sundays and I know what devilgrass is like.
5
We do have gardening activities, a greenhouse, a library and a barn they can putter around.
Usage of potter in English
1
In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both.
2
The ancient potter employed woven fabrics in handling, finishing, and decorating pottery.
3
For a while the Quarantine Commission had charge of the potter's fields.
4
He wouldn't potter about in a garden excavating the pedestals of statues.
5
And now it will be broken in pieces like a potter's vessel.
6
One of Gordon's daughters, now grown, was a potter somewhere in Texas.
7
But he can potter about and garden, being a Griqua by birth.
8
Does the vase ask the potter: why hast thou made me thus?
9
The Red Dead fan could potter off for a game of horseshoes.
10
They're like so much clay in the potter's hand now, for me.
11
Give the merchants that good-for-nothing potter-lad, who comes no one knows whence.'
12
He was a blacksmith, a mechanic, a carpenter, a cooper, a potter.
13
Too much miscarried with him, this potter who had not learned thoroughly!
14
Some were flint; others, clay in the hand of the potter.
15
His soul was in your hands like clay for the potter.
16
There is local calm, while the national councils potter over the Pacific railways.
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Translations for potter
Spanish
Potter through the time
Potter across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common