potter's wheel

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Such tools or implements are the hand-loom, the lathe, the potter's-wheel.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)

Three centuries have been insufficient to introduce the potter's-wheel, on a coast which is not above thirty or forty days' sail from Spain.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

And do you know what the potter’s-wheel is?

From Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls by Anonymous