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ˈpot-ˌmaker Now rare.
One who makes pots or pottery; a potter.
1535Coverdale 1 Chron. iv. 23 These were potmakers, and dwelt amonge plantes and hedges. 1550― Spir. Perle i. (1560) 3 It is not seeming, that the pot should murmur against the potmaker. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 665 He made a herauld proclaime that all potmakers should stand vp on their feete.
†b. spec. A maker of pots or crucibles for the Mint. Obs.
1548Privy Council Acts (1890) II. 177 For a smyth xxs; for a potmaker xxs. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1972/2 William Forleie pot-maker for the mint of the Tower of London. 1647Haward Crown Rev. 23 Pot-maker: Fee, 10. 0. 0. |