[pot-er] 
| a person who makes pottery. |
[pot-er] | 1. | Be⋅a⋅trix [bee-uh-triks] , 1866–1943, English writer and illustrator of children's books. |
| 2. | Paul, 1625–54, Dutch painter. |
[puht-er] | 1. | to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden. |
| 2. | to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose: to putter about the house on a rainy day. |
| 3. | to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter. |
| 4. | puttering or ineffective action; dawdling. |
| 5. | putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away. |
| pot·ter 1 (pŏt'ər) n. One who makes pottery. |
| pot·ter 2 (pŏt'ər) v. Chiefly British Variant of putter2. |
| Pot·ter (pŏt'ər) British writer and illustrator. Her animal stories include The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1900) and The Tailor of Gloucester (1902). |
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