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the one who turns mud and spin into something you'd eat dinner off.
means To potter is to busy yourself with small, pleasant, unhurried tasks without any urgent purpose; as a noun, a potter is someone who shapes clay into pots and vessels.
from Two strands meet under one word. The craftsman's 'potter' comes from 'pot' — an old Germanic word for a vessel — plus the '-er' that names a doer, so quite literally 'a maker of pots.' The dawdling 'potter,' meaning to fuss about idly, is a separate thread: it grew from the older verb 'pote,' meaning to poke or prod, so to potter is to keep poking gently at little things. Americans turned the same poking into 'putter.'
- ancient craft
- Pottery predates farming and writing by millennia
- the wheel
- Spinning clay can reach 100-plus rotations per minute
- radiocarbon clue
- Broken shards date entire archaeological sites
- kiln heat
- Stoneware fires above 1200 degrees Celsius
- japanese ideal
- Wabi-sabi prizes the cracked and imperfect pot
harry potter — fictional wizard character created by j.k. rowling in 1997
beatrix potter — english author and illustrator who created peter rabbit in 1893