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Definition of Spinning wheel
1. Noun. A small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot.
Definition of Spinning wheel
1. Noun. a domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinning Wheel
Literary usage of Spinning wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1921)
"... 'gan to feel, But still I turned my Spinning-Wheel. Most gracefully he did
appear, As he my Presence did draw near, And round about my slender waist He ..."
2. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"BESS AND HER spinning wheel. Tune—" The sweet lass that lo'es me." O LEEZE me on
my spinning wheel, O leeze me on my rock and reel; Free tap to tae that ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"SPINNING Wheel, ni [from spin.'] The wheel by which, since the disuse of the
rock, the thread is drawn. ..."
4. Textiles by Paul Henry Nystrom (1916)
"The spinning wheel.—As stated above, at about the time that America was ...
This invention was the spinning wheel. It combined three important parts, ..."
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