"maker of pots" (they also sometimes doubled as bell-founders), late Old English pottere "potter," reinforced by Old French potier "potter," both from the root of pot (n.1). As a surname from late 12c. Potter's field (1520s) is Biblical, a ground where clay suitable for pottery was dug, later purchased by high priests of Jerusalem as a burying ground for strangers, criminals, and the poor (Matt. xxvii:7). An older Old English word for "potter" was crocwyrhta "crock-wright."
potter (v.)
"occupy oneself in a trifling way," 1740, earlier "to poke again and again" (1520s), frequentative of obsolete verb poten "to push, poke," from Old English potian "to push" (see put (v.)). Related: Pottered; pottering.
雙語例句
1. As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay.
輪子一邊轉動，制陶工人一邊拉坯。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The story is told through the eyes of Inspector Simon Potter.
這個故事是從西蒙·波特巡官的視角講述的。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty.