potter's wheel

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   a horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter

   “the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC”

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Questions about potter's wheel

What does potter's wheel mean?

potter's wheel means "a horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter".

Is potter's wheel a common word?

potter's wheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.