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View synonyms for potter's wheel
potter's wheel
noun
- a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
potter's wheel
noun
- a device with a horizontal rotating disc, on which clay is shaped into pots, bowls, etc, by hand
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Word History and Origins
Origin of potter's wheel1
First recorded in 1720–30
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Example Sentences
The potters wheel must have been one of the very earliest inventions of semi-civilized races.
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The Bronze Age yields up pottery which does not yet show the invention of the potters wheel.
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This may be done either by moulding or by throwing upon the potters wheel.
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The use of the potters wheel was all but universal, and the wares were burned hard.
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Not till Celtic times in Europe is there evidence of the use of the potters wheel.
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