great wheel

noun

, Horology.

1. the wheel immediately driven by the power source.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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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.

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

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