great wheel

noun

, Horology.

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Remember how often you used to scold me for tangling the yarn, when you were spinning on the great wheel.

They are busy at work, turning a great wheel inside the mill; and the wheel is busy grinding corn into meal.

When he saw the great wheel standing in the corner, and had guessed the use of it, the merchant heaved a sigh of relief.

The loom in the garret always had its web ready, the great wheel by the other window sung its busy song year in and year out.

Yet his going was like the breaking of some great wheel at the centre of industry.

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