NOUN
- a small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot
How To Use spinning wheel In A Sentence
- Spinning wheels lined the walls and at the central tables others sorted, hackled and carded the wool.
- Cotton thread produced on spinning wheels or spinning jennies was not generally strong enough to be used as the warp as well as the weft of cloth, which meant that it had to be interwoven with linen or wool yarn. 'The Industrial Revolutionaries'
- Visitors can see bridal chambers and kitchens and try their hand on one-wheel handcarts, at milling and at the spinning wheel.
- Grace sat at the spinning wheel in the center of the stage and the curtain rose, to reveal an abandoned Marguerite.
- The spinning reels of the tapes, so carefully observed, are further spinning wheels in Harry's circular downfall.
- The congregation had to negotiate dangerous steep stairs and fill the space not occupied by a spinning wheel and furniture.
- Butter making, crochet, patchwork quilts, the traditional spinning wheel and a mobile forge are but a few of the items and sideshows that will feature at the rally.
- ‘This spinning wheel is a little darling,’ she added, deftly teasing out a skein of deep bluey green yarn - a luxury mixture of mohair, merino and silk.
- By the eve of the Revolution, eighty to ninety percent of rural households owned spinning wheels, and almost half owned looms.
- Pallas at the spinning wheel spins a thread out of the debris of sheared wool.
