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 > >