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Definition of Pottering
1. potter [v] - See also: potter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pottering
Literary usage of Pottering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Heels of De Wet (1902)
"STILL Pottering. To the delight of the men and disgust of the brigadier, day
broke without bringing any further orders to the New Cavalry Brigade. ..."
2. Modern Breaking: A Treatise on the Rearing, Breaking and Handling of Setters by William A. Bruette (1906)
"Breaking and field trial terms; obsolete words ; pointing; flushing; backing;
drawing; reading : pottering; blinking; stanch; ranging; quartering; ..."
3. Melton and Homespun: Nature and Sport in Prose and Verse by J. M. M. B. Durham, R. J. Richardson (1913)
"... Pottering " COME, old lady, let us go and potter." These words were addressed
to an old Cocker spaniel bitch who for a number of seasons past has been ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I ... was Pottering ABOUT the grounds, when I heard my name called. 1870.
Belts Li/e, 29 July. It was a day of Pottering ABOUT—no run worthy of the name, ..."
5. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"Again, the hunting-shooter is generally referred to as 'pottering about after an
old dog.' But why pottering ? And again, why old ? All dogs are not old. ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"The bad places in the plaster want pottering out. ... I was stood pottering the
fire. He hasn't pottered oat no.but two shillings all winter. POWER, 5. ..."
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