资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
   1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii.
      9.

            The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.
                                                  --Longfellow.

   2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De
      Quincey.

   3. One who pots meats or other eatables.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) 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} (Zo["o]l.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes
      fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and
      sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as
      cankerworms, as food for its young.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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"