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“Hu hu” putterings; In many ways another creak
 

“Putterings! Putterings? He did this!”   ₁
a lot of archaeological putterings   ₂
“Hu hu” putterings; In many ways   ₃
Perhaps it was all in his mind   ₁
 
the puttering end of it
oil holes and grooves, keys and set-screws,
details, the filling in   ₄
Another creak.   ₁
 

sources :

  1. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Fever Dream (Agent Pendergast Series, Book 10 of 22; 2010) : 185, 397
    putterings 637
  2. Robert Silverberg, “Ozymandias” in New Worlds Science Fiction No. 94, Vol. 32 (May 1960) : 39-55
    putterings 641
  3. Helen Eva Yates, “Introducing My Good Friend Tobias” Travel 68:2 (December 1936) : 14-15, 56
    putterings 640
  4. E. H. Fish, “Reform in Drawings” Machinery (November 1914) : 253-255 (254)
    putterings 639

    A designer is apt to be a poor as well us an expensive detailer, because he hates to get into the puttering end of it...but the filling in may be the most important thing of all.
     

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