putter

UK /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/ US /ˈpʌtɚ/
noun 5verb 2

Definitions

verb

1

To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.

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.

noun

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.

[…] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).

2

A shot-putter.

3

One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.

noun

1

A golf club specifically intended for a putt.

2

A person who is taking a putt or putting.

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