pottery wheel

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Definition of pottery wheel in English English dictionary

In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic wares. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming excess body from dried wares and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour. Use of the potter's wheel became widespread throughout the Old World, but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World, where pottery was hand-made by methods that included coiling and beating

Hyphenation

pot·te·ry wheel

Turkish pronunciation

pätıri hwil

Pronunciation

/ˈpätərē ˈhwēl/ /ˈpɑːtɜriː ˈhwiːl/