pot-makern.
/ˈpɒtˌmeɪkə/, U.S. /ˈpɑtˌmeɪkər/ 1. A person who makes pots; a potter.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun]
pottera1225
crockerc1315
pot-makera1399
turner1601
pot-baker1621
pot-founder1631
cloamer1659
thrower1744
ceramist1855
throwster1894
ceramicist1930
a1399 in W. G. Benham Oath Bk. Colchester (1907) 11 These be the names of Craftes..Potmakers, Goldsmeths, Alle other Smethys what myster.
1473 in G. Otto Handwerkernamen in Mittelengl. (1938) 36 (MED) Potmaker.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. iv. C These were potmakers, and dwelt amonge plantes and hedges [amōge in text].
1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle i. sig. Bv It is not semyng that the pot should murmur agaynst the potmaker.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 669 He made a herauld proclaime that all pottemakers should stand vp on their feete.
1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 190v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Potmaker To the potemaker for clipping of the irne plate that standis befoir the stamparis in the stampmylne, x s.
1690 in L. Jewitt Ceramic Art (1878) I. vi. 157 This Indenture, made..Betweene Mary Crispe..and Samuel Crispe of the One part And William Knight of the Parish of St. Buttolph without Aldgate London Pottmaker of the Other part.
1724 D. Defoe Life & Adventures Robinson Crusoe (ed. 2) ii. 199 He was dexterous at making Wheels and Hand-Mills to grind Corn, likewise a good Turner, and a good Pot-Maker.
1774 in L. Jewitt Ceramic Art (1878) I. xii. 416 John Ash, pot maker, Bottle Lane.
1852 H. Martineau in Househ. Words 27 Mar. 33/2 There are three pot-makers in the [glass-making] establishment.
1892 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 21 Dec. The average wages paid in the Covington glass factory are..Blowers, $125 a month,..pot-maker, $75, cutters, $125, [etc.].
1969 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 7 Dec. b7/1 [The stamp] features a female potmaker from the Madang district at work.
1996 Australian (Nexis) 12 July 16 [He] talks about putting fibro under them for drainage, but never demands of pot-makers that they simply put 'feet' on them.
2. spec. A maker of pots, crucibles, etc., for the Royal Mint. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > maker of specific type of pottery
pot-maker1548
red potter1756
presser1769
porcelainist1868
pot-builder1890
studio potter1910
1548 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 177 For a smyth xxs; for a potmaker xxs.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 972/2 William Foxleie pot-maker for the mint of the Tower of London.
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 23 Pot-maker: Fee, 10. 0. 0.
1749 ‘T. Thumb’ Hist. Eng. 155 William Foxley, Pot-maker to the Mint, slept 14 Days and Nights, during which Time all Means were tried in vain to awake him.
1919 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 Feb. 7/3 William Foxley, a pot-maker at the Mint.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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