noun
a horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter
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the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC
• Hypernyms: ↑wheel
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noun, pl ⋯ wheels [count]
: a machine with a flat disk on which a potter shapes wet clay into pots as it spins
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a piece of equipment with a flat disc that goes around, on which ↑potters put wet ↑clay in order to shape it into pots
Useful english dictionary. 2012.