pottering

The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

Look here: you're pottering about this country just now; just count how many houses you find with the name 'Hafod Unos.'

Wollaston and I spent most of the afternoon pottering round and collecting seeds of plants of different kinds.

I left the pottering Cather to put ship-shape his cabin (as he now called it) for himself––a rainy-day occupation for aliens.

Midway of the main bridge a handful of French engineers were pottering away, rather leisurely, I thought, at some job or other.