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Potter's wheel   /pˈɑtərz wil/   Listen
Potter's wheel

noun
1.
A horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter.





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"Potter's wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... expanded by Shakespeare, and taken up by Keats; his comparison of Poetry to Painting; his delineation of an honest critic. Brief phrases which have become classical abound. The "purple patch" sewn on to a sober narrative; the wine jar turning to a pitcher as the potter's wheel revolves; the injunction to keep a book ten years before you publish it; the near kinship of terseness to obscurity; the laughable outcome of a mountain's labour; the warning to be chary of bringing gods upon the stage; the occasional nod of Homer;—are commonplace citations so ...
— Horace • William Tuckwell
... The potter's wheel did not exist in the western world, but it was almost invented. Time and muscle, knack and touch, a trained eye and brain and an unlimited array of patterns hanging on fancy's walls, aided by a box of dry sand, were competent to give the charming results. No more ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


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