Meaning of great wheel | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of spinning wheel with a large drive wheel, turned by hand rather than a treadle.

Examples

“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.”

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