great wheel
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of spinning wheel with a large drive wheel, turned by hand rather than a treadle.
Example Sentences
- "Over the room in the inn where he and Boswell sat "a girl was spinning wool with a great wheel, and singing an Erse song.""
- "The great wheel does require better fiber preparation than is necessary with a treadle wheel. This is partly because you use only one hand to control the drawing out of the yarn, and also because you cannot draw against the spindle."