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Putter

//ˈpʌtə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who puts or places.

    "He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler."

  2. 2
    A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  3. 3
    the iron normally used on the putting green wordnet
  4. 4
    A shot-putter.
  5. 5
    A person who is taking a putt or putting.
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  1. 6
    a golfer who is putting wordnet
  2. 7
    One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
Verb
  1. 1
    To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. intransitive

    "We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock."

  2. 2
    To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. intransitive

    "By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine."

  3. 3
    move around aimlessly wordnet
  4. 4
    do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly wordnet
  5. 5
    work lightly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Alteration of potter.

Etymology 2

From put + -er.

Etymology 3

From putt + -er.

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic.

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