Crossword-Solution: POTTERER 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Whether he be the enthusiastic investigator resolved on exhausting any great question, or be a mere wayward potterer, picking up curiosities by the way for his own private intellectual museum, the larger the collection at his disposal the better--it cannot be too great.[38] No one, therefore, can be an ardent follower of such a pursuit without having his own library.

You've deceived everyone--even that old potterer, Sir Bernard himself." "I've done it for your sake," was her response.

The latter plan would avoid all risk of your making him a potterer, and it is, I think, to be recommended, if you find him naturally inclined to hunt low.

Dad says I’ve got a good deal of ingenuity, but that if I don’t look out I’ll never be anything but a potterer.” “A potterer? That’s a funny name for you.” “Yes; he means a chap who just potters around doing a lot of little things that don’t amount to anything.

Observe how the poking potterer is dismissed by the high full-pitch or by the ball to entice a catch in the slips--for him you will note in your mind, “Two short slips and perhaps two square legs.” Watch the fingers of the nervous batsman grip the bat tight; watch the feet and body shuffle in anxiety; watch the feeble strokes that result; watch the balls that worry him most before he gets confidence.