Anagrams of PUTTERING__

• a pinkish lilac crystal form of the mineral spodumene that is used as a gemstone

• To be frivolous and waste time

• To experiment by trial and error

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump

• the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground

• an abrupt spasmodic movement

• lacking a steady rhythm

• an instance of questioning

• a search for knowledge

• a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest

• the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country

• knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury

• a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s

• do the jitterbug