'Potter's asthma' definitions:

Definition of 'Potter's asthma'

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  • Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
  • 1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. One who pots meats or other eatables. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]