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Definition: Spinning Wheel |
Spinning WheelNoun1. A small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Spinning Wheel |
| English words defined with "spinning wheel": emblematic, emblematical ♦ Girdle wheel, gyro, gyroscope ♦ Night hawk ♦ symbolic, symbolical ♦ Tourn. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spinning wheel": CUPOLA OPERATOR, INSULATION. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spinning wheel": rhomb. (references) |
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The spinning wheel was an advancement on the concept of the distaff or drop spindle; like the distaff, it worked by spinning the material - twisting the fibers into a long continuous strand. Rather than relying on hand-spinning or gravity, however, the spinning wheel used a pedal (or other motivation, such as water or electric power) to turn a large wheel, along which the thread was strung. The motion of the wheel twisted the thread, which was then collected on a post called (after its predecessor) the spindle.
Referred to in the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty; the princess (leading lady) pricks her finger on the spinning wheel and falls asleep before a handsome prince finds and kisses her. In the fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, a young woman is expected to use a spinning wheel to spin straw into gold.
See also: Spinning, Spinning jenny
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spinning wheel."
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Song Titles | Spinning Wheel (performing artist: Sweat and Tears Blood) | |
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 | Emma Eames, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front with right hand on spinning wheel. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Native women at the spinning wheel, India. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bedroom with spinning wheel and Colonial-style furnishings. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spinning wheel used by a rehabilitation client, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman running spinning wheel at Crossville, Tennessee. Cumberland Homesteads. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Smithsonian Institution interiors. Spinning wheel at Smithsonian Institution. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Two women conversing, one seated on window sill stitching cloth, the other seated by spinning wheel with a distaff in one hand. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spinning wheel | 141 |
spinning wheel wire | 21 |
kit spinning wheel | 20 |
cover spinning wheel | 18 |
plan spinning wheel | 11 |
antique spinning wheel | 10 |
davin spinning wheel | 5 |
ashford spinning wheel | 4 |
lendrum spinning wheel | 4 |
baynes spinning wheel | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "spinning wheel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qerthull (pound, reel, vortex, whorl), çikrik (bobbin, crab, drum, hoist, reel, spool, winch, windlass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مغزل (spindle), دولاب الغزل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чекрък (wheel, wheel and axle, winch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kolovrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spinderok (hand spinning wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | handspinnewiel (hand spinning wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝpinrado (spinning-wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rouet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spinnrad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανέμη (reel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rokka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | filarello. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 糸車 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いとぐるま. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | queeyl sneeuee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maya | haxab. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inningspay eelwhay roda de fiar. (various references) roatã (circle, rack, ring, wheel). (various references) chakrùk. (various references) прялка (distaff, spinning-wheel). (various references) kolovrat. (various references) torno de hilar, rueca de hilar, rueca (distaff). (various references) spinnrock (spinning-wheel). (various references) çıkrık (sheave, sweep, winder, winding wheel, windlass). (various references) perik, зarh (wheel). (various references) прядка (distaff, wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Spinning Wheel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spining wheel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-n-n-p-s-w" | |
-2 letters: pinwheeling. | |
-3 letters: plenishing. | |
-4 letters: pinwheels, wheelings, wheepling. | |
-5 letters: enisling, ensiling, heelings, helpings, hiplines, ninepins, peelings, pennines, pinwheel, sheening, shieling, shinning, sinewing, sleeping, speeling, speiling, spieling, spinning, splining, sweeping, weepings, welshing, wheeling, wheeping, whelping, whinnies, winnings. | |
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