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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.
Synonyms
Examples for "thrower"
Examples for "thrower"
1
But where did this come from? he said, handing the thrower back.
2
Montag kept his sickness down long enough to aim the flame thrower.
3
He never got a chance to use that flame-thrower, Noah thought dully.
4
Chapman argued that Swartz thought he was firing on a second rock-thrower.
5
One sees the disc thrower at the left resting after the game.
1
And as new guests ourselves, we met Akbar Rakhimov, a distinguished Uzbek ceramicist.
2
The painter, ceramicist, sculptor and Arts Foundation Laureate calls the show US V THEM.
3
How did "ceramicist with a private income" become a cipher for glamour?
4
You're also a very talented ceramicist (read more on Nikita's ceramics line here).
5
Photo: Collis family Life has changed considerably over the past couple of months for Auckland ceramicist and actress Julie Collis.
1
It was not SO 's first encounter with the ceramist Tiana Anglin.
2
In 1995 Mukhtarov, a professional ceramist, took part in a UN conference dedicated to lost culture in Uzbekistan.
3
The King, who was an artist to his finger tips, a distinguished musician, water-colour artist, etcher, and ceramist, hated politics.
Spanish
entretenerse Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.
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