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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Potters field the name given to the piece of ground which was afterwards bought with the money that had been given to Judas. It was called the "field of blood" (Matt. 27:7-10). Tradition places it in the valley of Hinnom. (See ACELDAMA.)