putter

Meanings

Plural: putters

Noun

• a golfer who is putting
• the iron normally used on the putting green
• One who puts or places.
• A shot-putter.
• One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
• A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
• A person who is taking a putt or putting.

Verb

• work lightly
• do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
• move around aimlessly
• To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
• To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

Synonyms

mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, potter around, putter around, putting iron, tinker

Related Words

carter