Word Meanings - PLOUTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.

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• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• DABBLE
  To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. "Bright hair dabbled in blood." Shak.
• SPLASHY
  Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
• POTTERY
  1. The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked. 2. The place where earthen vessels are made.
• DABBLER
  1. One who dabbles. 2. One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. "our dabblers in politics." Swift.
• POTTER
  The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. Potter's asthma , 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
• SPLASHER
  1. One who, or that which, splashes. 2. One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc. Weale. 3. A guard to keep off splashes from anything.
• SPLASH
  Etym: 1. To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash. 2. To spatter water, mud, etc., upon; to wet.
• SPLASHBOARD
  A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; -- in the United States commonly called dashboard.
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• SPOTTER
  One who spots.
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
• WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
  1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant."
• GADABOUT
  A gadder
• HEREA-BOUT; HEREABOUTS
  1. About this place; in this vicinity. 2. Concerning this.