| 单词 | potter's wheel |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotter's wheel potter's wheel n. a horizontal revolving disc on which prepared clay is moulded into shape; sometimes taken to include the whole device or machine of which this disc is a part (cf. potter's lathe n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > potter's lathe > horizontal wheel of wheela1382 potter's wheel1609 whirling-table1764 throwing table1855 slow wheel1925 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica i. 26 He first deuised the Bellowes, and as some suppose the Potters wheele. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pottery The Potter's Wheel consists principally in its Nut, which is a Beam or Axis, whose Foot or Pivot plays perpendicularly on a Free-stone Sole or Bottom. 1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass i. 5 The earliest authentic records allude to the potter's wheel as to an implement of then high antiquity. 1894 S. Smiles J. Wedgwood iii. 22 The thrower is the person who sits in his shed, near the potter's wheel, and forms by hand from the moist clay as it revolves, the crock, the butter pot, the porringer or other such wares. 1927 Amer. Mercury Jan. 69/2 The making of pottery vessels by hand coiling without the aid of the potter's wheel originated and developed in America. 1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 22 Dec. e1/1 The potter's wheel, which is mentioned in the Old Testament, is one of the most ancient examples of the flywheel principle. < as lemmas |
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