According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "Potting" (verb) means:
1. Drinking (ale, beer, etc); tippling.
2. The making of pottery or earthenware.
3. Ther preserving of butter,meat, fish, etc in pots or other vessels.
4. Planting in or transplanting into a pot.
5. The catching of crabs in pots.
6. Shooting; taking of pot-shots.
7. attrib. and comb. ... (in combination with various words, having various
meanings).
 
At 06:00 PM 7/29/96 +0300, you wrote:
>I've recently submitted a text using the verb form of "potting" meaning
>to make or fashion pots, as by a potter.  My ed. suggests that this is
>"unusual" or that I may be a little "potty".  English colleagues take
>this verb form to mean putting plants in "flower pots".  I'd very much
>appreciate feedback on this because I do not have access to a really big
>dictionary of American.  Thanks.
>Eliot Braun, Israel Antiquities Authority
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