potter

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  1. noun One who makes pottery.
  2. verb Chiefly British Variant of putter2.

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  1. = Dutch potter, a hoarder, = Middle Low German potter, Low German pottjer = German pötter, potter; from Old French potier, French potier, a potter, from pot, pot: see pot.
  2. Also putter, dial. (Scots) pouter, pudder; cf. Dutch poteren, peuteren, poke, pry, search; freq. of pote, and secondarily of put, push: see pote, put.
 

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/ˈpɑtər/
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