spinning wheel

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A tweet about Tuesday’s announcement included a video showing a spinning wheel with a Tesla logo that could have been the rotor of a Tesla eVTOL, or quadcopter drone.

From Barron's • Oct. 7, 2025

As the potter works the spinning wheel, the friction between their hands and the soft clay helps them shape it into all kinds of forms and creations.

From Science Daily • Jan. 9, 2024

After a timid first round with both fighters landing leg kicks from distance, Pettis started to open up in the second, landing body-shot combinations and a flamboyant spinning wheel kick which hurt Freire.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2023

Schubert’s song “Gretchen am Spinnrade” famously imitates a spinning wheel in the piano: the left hand repeating the rhythm of a pedal, and the right whirling a phrase in perpetual motion.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023

For hours on end the whir of the spinning wheel and the twang of the loom were the only sounds.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare