spinning-wheeln.
A simple apparatus for spinning, formerly in common use, in which the formation of the thread is carried out by the help of a wheel worked either by the hand or foot.
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1404 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 22 j. spynyng wheel.
1475 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 49, No. 8) 1 saucer, 1 spynnyng-whele in manu servientis.
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 296 Some layde to pledge..Theyr rocke, theyr spynnyng whele.
1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 30 Item, a spynnyng qweyll.
1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 220 To the cookes wiffe, for a spinninge wheele, ijs iiijd.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week v. 123 My Spinning-Wheel and Rake, Let Susan keep for her dear Sister's sake.
1790 F. Burney Diary July (1842) V. 146 We had begun some intercourse..through an application I made to her for a spinning-wheel.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany vi. 67 I found the good-wife sitting at her spinning-wheel, and in the recess I observed two looms.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 458 Spinning wheels were universally employed on the Continent of Europe and in this country until the year 1764.
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attributive and in other combinations.
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1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 520/1 The upper pivot (which resembles the fore pivot or eye of a spinning wheel fly).
1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist vi. 101 The night-jar..was still out with his spinning-wheel-like birr, birr.
1884 Littell's Living Age 15 Mar. 691 The spinning-wheel sound which betrays the bear sucking his paws at his ease.
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