spinning-wheel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hand- or foot-powered machine that twists fibers into thread or yarn

   The spinning-wheel hummed as its operator drew wool into a fine thread.

A compound of spinning + wheel. Rotating wheels were added to earlier hand spindles to twist fiber more continuously and efficiently; the hyphenated form was common in nineteenth-century writing.

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