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spinning wheel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot.
   • Dobrunka always began the day by feeding the goats, then she prepared the breakfast, swept the kitchen, and when everything else was done she sat down at her spinning wheel and spun. 1919, Parker Hoysted Fillmore, Czechoslovak fairy tales, page 179:

Forms

Hyponyms

great wheel · charkha

Relateds

spindle

Translations (70)

ro roată de tors (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · fa چرخه (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · pdc Schpinnraad (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ca roda (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · fi rukki (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · khb ᦷᦅᧂᦔᧃᧈᦚᦻᧉ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · no rokk (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · nl spinnewiel (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ltg spriežamais rateņš (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · sv spinnrock (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · es torno de hilar (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · vi guồng quay tơ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · wa molén a fiyî (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · cs kolovrat (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · da hjulrok (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · eu goru (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · hy ճախարակ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · he גלגל טוויה (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · br karr-nezañ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ga tuirne (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · tr çıkrık (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · es rueca (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · pdt Spennraut (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · mww tshuab ntuag (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · lo ຫຼາ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · io filiforoteto (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · gv queeyl sneeuee (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · mk родан (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · gd cuidheall-shnìomha (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · no hjulrokk (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · fr rouet (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · da spinderok (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · hu guzsaly (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · bg чекрък (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · cy troell nyddu (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ja 糸車 (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ca roda de filar (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · cmn 紡車 /纺车 (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · mk мотовило (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · eo radŝpinilo (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · wa cariot (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · pt roda de fiar (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · uk пря́дка (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · fo rokkur (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · tl gantala (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · gl roca (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · it filatoio (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · de Spinnrad (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · as যঁতৰ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ota چقرق (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ltg rateņš (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · pl kołowrotek (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · hu rokka (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · eu kilo (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · et vokk (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ru пря́лка (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · lv vērpjamais ratiņš (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · es hiladora (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ar عَجَلَة الْمِغْزَل (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · br rod-nezañ (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · ko 물레 (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · el ροδάνι (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · lv ratiņš (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · no spinnrokk (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · no spinnerokk (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · gu ચરખો (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · da rok (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · sl kolovrat (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · cy troell (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle) · is rokkur (device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle)