potter

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who makes pottery.
2. v. Chiefly British Variant of putter².

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One whose occupation is the making of pots or earthenware vessels of any kind.
2. n. One who peddles earthenware or crockery.
3. n. One who pots meats, vegetables, etc.
4. n. A fresh-water clemmyoid turtle, Deirochelys serrata, of the United States.
5. n. The slider, or red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rugosa. See slider. [Local, U. S.]
6. n. In a larger sense, any earth used in the ceramic art, including kaolin, a so-called blue clay which is of a grayish color and when fired is white, and a black clay so called, which also results in a white biscuit.
7. To be busy in doing little, or what is of little or no practical value; busy one's self over trifles; trifle; work with little energy or purpose.
8. To hobble; walk slowly and with difficulty; move slowly; loiter.
9. To walk upon or leap from piece to piece of floating ice. Bartlett. [Local, U.S.]
10. To poke; push; disturb.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete To poke repeatedly.
2. v. UK To act in a vague or unmotivated way.
3. v. UK To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around)
4. n. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
5. n. idiomatic, biblical God, the creator.
6. n. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
2. n. Prov. Eng. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
3. n. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. n. (Zoöl.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
5. v. To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to pother.
6. v. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
7. v. Prov. Eng. To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. work lightly
2. v. move around aimlessly
3. v. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
4. n. a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln