Definition of potter

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Potter (n.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.

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Aceldama :: Aceldama (n.) The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed..
Pugging :: Pugging (v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc..
Pottering :: Pottering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Potte.
Fictile :: Fictile (a.) Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material..
Smeir :: Smeir (n.) A salt glaze on pottery, made by adding common salt to an earthenware glaze..
Sigillated :: Sigillated (a.) Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.
Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A potter's wheel.
Firing :: Firing (n.) The process of partly vitrifying pottery by exposing it to intense heat in a kiln.
Rabat :: Rabat (n.) A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
Frit :: Frit (v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.
Satsuma Ware :: Satsuma ware () A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands..
Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..
Cup :: Cup (n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like..
Blunging :: Blunging (n.) The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
Majolica :: Majolica (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century..
Crocker :: Crocker (n.) A potter.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms..
Potter :: Potter (n.) One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
Glost Oven :: Glost oven () An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glaze kiln, or glaze..
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