prayer wheel

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   a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet

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Questions about prayer wheel

What does prayer wheel mean?

prayer wheel means "a cylinder with prayers written on it; each revolution counts as uttering the prayers; used especially by Buddhists in Tibet".

Is prayer wheel a common word?

prayer 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.