spinning wheel

Noun

Meaning

spinning wheel (plural spinning wheels)

A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot.

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spinning-wheel

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The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe. Friedrich Engels

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 the fell disease. Mahatma Gandhi

A gyroscope (from Greek γῦρος gûros, "circle" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a spinning wheel or disc in which the axis of rotation is free to assume any orientation by itself. Source: Internet

Modern Era Early modern period *c. 1600 – The modern spinning wheel comes together with the addition of the treadle to the flyer wheel. Source: Internet

P. 63. John Wiley and Sons, 1998 The jenny worked in a similar manner to the spinning wheel, by first clamping down on the fibres, then by drawing them out, followed by twisting. Source: Internet

Some bonuses use a mechanical device, such as a spinning wheel, that works in conjunction with the bonus to display the amount won. Source: Internet

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