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Spinning wheel   /spˈɪnɪŋ wil/   Listen
Spinning wheel

noun
1.
A small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot.






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"Spinning wheel" Quotes from Famous Books



... had been confined to his bed, but at the present time he occupied his father's arm-chair, which the old man had relinquished to him. He usually sat in a corner near Magde's spinning wheel and his father's ...
— The Home in the Valley • Emilie F. Carlen

... Major, and all his best friends called him Major. Little did I think once that I should be condemned to the disgrace of spending my old age in a garret with crooked curling tongs, broken pitchers, old baize gowns, noseless tea-kettles, old crutches, a foot stove, and, worse than all, a spinning wheel. ...
— Who Spoke Next • Eliza Lee Follen

... Moon? But this old woman couldn't tell her, and bade her go on to another old woman, a long way off. And she gave her the golden carding comb, and lent her a horse just like the first one. And the third old woman was playing with a golden spinning wheel; and she gave this to the wife of the White Bear, and lent her another horse, and told her to ride on to the East Wind, and ask him the way to the enchanted land. Now after a weary journey she got to the home of the East Wind, and he said he had ...
— Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning • John Thackray Bunce

... nicest one that could be imagined. In one corner were several trunks. In another corner was a spinning wheel, and hanging here and there from the attic beams were strings of sleigh bells, that sent out a merry jingle when one's ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods • Laura Lee Hope

... history, the volumes will contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—"Curiosities of the Old Lottery," "Days of the Spinning Wheel," "Some Strange and Curious Punishments," "Quaint and Curious Advertisements," "Literary Curiosities," ...
— The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery • Henry M. Brooks



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