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What (who) is spinning wheel - definition
DEVICE FOR SPINNING THREAD, YARN, OR SILK FROM NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC FIBERS
Spinning-wheel; Charka wheel; Spinning Wheel; Saxony wheel; Charkha (spinning wheel)
![Spinning [[wool]] on a great wheel at a demonstration in the [[Conner Prairie]] living history museum [[loom]] house](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Conner-prairie-spinning-wheel.jpg?width=200 "Spinning [[wool]] on a great wheel at a demonstration in the [[Conner Prairie]] living history museum [[loom]] house")
![Mahatma Gandhi]] spinning yarn on a charkha.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gandhi spinning.jpg?width=200 "Mahatma Gandhi]] spinning yarn on a charkha.")
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![al-Wasiti]] (1237)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Illustration of al-Hariri Maqamat spinning wheel.jpg?width=200 "al-Wasiti]] (1237)")
![The spinning wheel pictured in the coat of arms of [[Kiikka]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kiikka.vaakuna.svg?width=200 "The spinning wheel pictured in the coat of arms of [[Kiikka]]")
![St Elizabeth]] shows a castle-style spinning wheel and a [[distaff]] used to hold the fibre.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marianne Stokes St Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor.jpg?width=200 "St Elizabeth]] shows a castle-style spinning wheel and a [[distaff]] used to hold the fibre.")
![A charkha used by [[Mahatma Gandhi]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charkha kept at Gandhi Ashram.jpg?width=200 "A charkha used by [[Mahatma Gandhi]]")
![Using a bicycle-wheel charkha (and a [[yarn swift]])](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woman spinning, Jaura, India.jpg?width=200 "Using a bicycle-wheel charkha (and a [[yarn swift]])")
spinning-wheel
see spinning wheel
spinning wheel
¦ noun an apparatus for spinning yarn or thread with a spindle driven by a wheel attached to a crank or treadle.
spinning wheel
also spinning-wheel
(spinning wheels)
A spinning wheel is a wooden machine that people used in their homes to make thread from wool, in former times.
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Wikipedia
Spinning wheel
A spinning wheel is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution.
Examples of use of spinning wheel
1. A big dollop of blood–red paint hits the horizontal spinning wheel bang in the centre.
2. But too often the book moves along like an endlessly spinning wheel of misery.
3. And Hillary seemed to have pricked her finger on her campaign‘s spinning wheel.
4. Excavated in the layer were a stone ax, a stone arrowhead, a net sinker and other stone implements and an ancient spinning–wheel and earthenwares made of clay.
5. Photos of him at his spinning wheel wearing a white loincloth are as ubiquitous and globally recognizable as Bob Marley with dreadlocks or Che Guevara in a beret.