potter

(pät′ər)

noun

a person who makes earthenware pots, dishes, etc.

Origin: ME < Late OE pottere < ML pottarius

intransitive verb, transitive verb

Brit. putter

Origin: freq. formation < obs. pote < OE potian, to push

Potter, Beatrix 1866-1943; Eng. writer & illustrator of children's books

See potter in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One who makes pottery.

verb
Chiefly British

Variant of putter².

British writer and illustrator. Her animal stories include The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1900) and The Tailor of Gloucester (1902).

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