† ˈpottern, a. Obs. rare.
[f. potter n.1, app. after leathern, etc.]
Of or pertaining to potters: with quots. cf. potter's lead, ore, potter n.1 3.
| 1661 Boyle Unsuccessfuln. Experim. i. Wks. 1772 I. 323 An ore, which for its aptness to vitrify, and serve the potters to glaze their earthen vessels, the miners call pottern-ore. a 1728 Woodward Nat. Hist. Fossils (1729) I. i. 188 A Spar..that is shattery, and breaks in Squares, exactly like the finest Pottern-Lead-Ore. |