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wool-wheel1630
girdle-wheel1688
high wheel1836
tow-wheel1900
1688 R. HolmeAcad. Armoryiii. 287/1 The Girdle Wheel is a [Spinning] Wheel so little that a Gentle-woman may hang it at her Girdle..and Spin with it, though she be walking about.