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 Pot·ter n.
 1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
    The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.   --Longfellow.
 2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.]
 3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
 4. Zool. The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
 Potter's asthma Med., emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. --Parkers.
 Potter's clay. See under Clay.
 Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in --Matt. xxvii. 7.
 Potter's ore. See Alquifou.
 Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. “My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.” --Shak.
 Potter wasp Zool., a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.

 potter's wheel
      n : a horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by
          a potter; "the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor
          around 6500 BC"