potter has definitions from the field of work
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[ noun ] (work) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

At_the_least , however , one may conclude that Geometric potters sensed a logical order ; their principles of composition stand very close to those which appear in the Homeric epics and the hexameter line .

The potters of the Aegean_islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland , and in Greece itself Argive , Corinthian , Attic , Boeotian , and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks .

Many potters clung_to the past the more determinedly as they were confronted with radically new ideas ; the poet of the Iliad deliberately archaized .

The potters , in_particular , had virtually eschewed freehand drawing , elaborate motifs , and the curving lines of nature , while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe .

Ripe_Geometric potters continued to employ the old syntax of ornaments and shapes and made use of the well-defined though limited range of motifs which they had inherited .

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[ verb ] (work) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly

Examples

"The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

Related terms

work puddle tinker putterer

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[ verb ] (work) work lightly

Synonyms

putter

Examples

"The old lady is pottering around in the garden"

Related terms

busy putterer

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 376
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[ verb ] move around aimlessly

Related terms

move putterer

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