potter's wheel

NOUN

a power tool for making pottery

Synonyms

WEAK

hand-turned wheel kick wheel pedal wheel power wheel rotator wheel

Example Sentences

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Also on show are the micro-pots of Bx Woo, who travels the world with her miniature potter's wheel extolling the joys of mini-ceramics.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

For the 46-year-old L.A. ceramist, pottery has been an enduring love affair since her first potter’s wheel lesson with teacher John Smolenski at Skaneateles High School in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

Outside, she passes a large electric kiln, a potter’s wheel and a shelf of grimacing and grinning figures that have come to define her ceramics work.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Subtle rings from a potter’s wheel made when a piece is thrown, traces from fingertips pinching and sealing the clay together, brush strokes of glaze applied.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Under the deep eaves at the back, Min kept his potter’s wheel.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park