It had been expected to smelt metal ore in the veins in which it was found, and to make mines yield their product as metal without digging up and Puttering with useless rock.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
She seemed to be Puttering about.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
Tired of talking, she watched with cool nervousness the movements of the young man; watched his graceful figure, admirable poses; his long, brown fingers smoothing and Puttering in the clay; his sharply etched profile, so melancholy, insincere.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker