spinning-wheel

See also: spinning wheel

English

Noun

spinning-wheel (plural spinning-wheels)

1. Dated form of spinning wheel.
   • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “In Which the Story Pauses a Little”, in Adam Bede […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book second, page 5:

     […] while the noonday light, softened perhaps by a screen of leaves, falls on her mob-cap, and just touches the rim of her spinning-wheel, and her stone jug, and all those cheap common things which are the precious necessaries of life to her;—[…]

   • 1868, J. C. Atkinson, A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, London: John Russell Smith, Soho Square, →OCLC, page 512:

     In the days of spinning-wheels and home-woven cloth, &c., it was customary to affix Swatches to the various rolls of cloth sent to the dyer's, which in this part of Cleveland were marked with the initials of the sender.

   • 1870, Sketches from the Border Land; or, A Daughter of England, London: F. Bowyer Kitto, […], page 9:

     Among much that was curious, there were tables with raised edges of delicate workmanship, holding some fine old china; there was a small oak spinning-wheel, on which my grandmother spun; and standing alone, too modern for its surroundings, was a piano-forté, on which Miss Green played.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 251:

     Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.

   • 2018 fall, Théophile Gautier, translated by J. E. Rivers, “The Child Whose Shoes Were Made of Bread”, in Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, volume 33, number 2:

     Her modest dwelling was sparsely furnished: an old bed with spiral bedposts and curtains of yellowed serge; a hutch where she kneaded and kept bread; a chest of walnut, clean and shiny but riddled with wormholes plugged with wax, testimony to long years of service; a chair with faded upholstery worn out at the top by her grandmother’s trembling head; a spinning-wheel sleek and smooth from use.