Phrase guide

spinning wheel

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A domestic device for making yarn or thread; having a single spindle and a wheel driven by hand or foot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a small domestic spinning machine with a single spindle that is driven by hand or foot

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spinning machine

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: عَجَلَة الْمِغْزَل — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Armenian: ճախարակ (čaxarak) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Assamese: যঁতৰ (zõtor) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Basque: goru — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Basque: kilo — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Breton: karr-nezañ — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Breton: rod-nezañ — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Bulgarian: чекрък (čekrǎk) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Catalan: roda — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Catalan: roda de filar — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紡車 /纺车 (fǎngchē) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Czech: kolovrat — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Danish: spinderok — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Danish: hjulrok — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Danish: rok — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Dutch: spinnewiel — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Esperanto: radŝpinilo — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Estonian: vokk — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Faroese: rokkur — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Finnish: rukki — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • French: rouet — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Galician: roca — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • German: Spinnrad — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Greek: ροδάνι (rodáni) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Gujarati: ચરખો (carkho) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Hebrew: גלגל טוויה (galgal tviyah) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • White Hmong: tshuab ntuag — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Hungarian: rokka — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Hungarian: guzsaly — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Icelandic: rokkur — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Ido: filiforoteto — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Irish: tuirne — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Italian: filatoio — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Japanese: 糸車 (itoguruma) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Korean: 물레 (mulle) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Lao: ຫຼາ (lā) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Latgalian: spriežamais rateņš — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Latgalian: rateņš — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Latvian: vērpjamais ratiņš — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Latvian: ratiņš — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • : ᦷᦅᧂᦔᧃᧈᦚᦻᧉ (kongṗan1ḟaay2) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Macedonian: мотовило (motovilo) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Macedonian: родан (rodan) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Manx: queeyl sneeuee — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Norwegian: rokk — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Norwegian: spinnerokk — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Norwegian: spinnrokk — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Norwegian: hjulrokk — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Pennsylvania German: Schpinnraad — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Persian: چرخه (čarxe) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Plautdietsch: Spennraut — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Polish: kołowrotek — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Portuguese: roda de fiar — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Romanian: roată de tors — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Russian: пря́лка (prjálka) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Scottish Gaelic: cuidheall-shnìomha — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Slovene: kolovrat — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Spanish: rueca — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Spanish: torno de hilar — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Spanish: hiladora — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Swedish: spinnrock — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Tagalog: gantala — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Turkish: çıkrık — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Ottoman Turkish: چقرق (çıkrık) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Ukrainian: пря́дка (prjádka) — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Vietnamese: guồng quay tơ — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Walloon: molén a fiyî — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Walloon: cariot — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Welsh: troell — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle
  • Welsh: troell nyddu — device for spinning thread with a wheel and a spindle