A potter's wheel is a piece of equipment with a flat disc which spins round, on which a potter puts soft clay in order to shape it into a pot. A revolving, often treadle-operated horizontal disk on which clay is shaped manually. a piece of equipment that turns around, onto which wet clay is placed so that it can be shaped by hand into a pot
a horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter; "the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC