spinning wheel
spinning wheel
Definition
spinning wheel
noun
a simple spinning machine fitted with a single spindle driven by the rotation of a large wheel spun by a foot treadle or by hand
spinning wheel
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: But the cotton could not be spun quickly enough in the domestic system by hand-spinners using spinning wheels.
spinning-wheel Quotes
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of thedisease.
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