great wheels
great wheels is the plural of great wheel.
Meaning of great wheel
Noun
great wheel (plural great wheels)
- A type of spinning wheel with a large drive wheel, turned by hand rather than a treadle.
- Over the room in the inn where he and Boswell sat "a girl was spinning wool with a great wheel, and singing an Erse song."1890, George Birkbeck Norman Hill, Footsteps of Dr. Johnson, page 135
Questions about great wheels
- What is great wheels the plural of?
- Great wheels is the plural of great wheel.
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