potter's wheel

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ˌpotter’s ˈwheel noun [countable]  TIPa piece of equipment that turns around, onto which wet clay is placed so that it can be shaped by hand into a pot 陶轮，拉坯轮

Examples from the Corpus

potter's wheel• Tornadoes that spun across the blue sky like vases thrown on some mad potter's wheel.• Craftsman Mark Mayson demonstrated the art of hand throwing on the potter's wheel.

ˌpotter’s ˈwheel nounChineseSyllable  

around, which equipment of a Corpus onto wet turns that piece

potter's wheel
ˌpotter’s ˈwheel noun [countable]
a piece of equipment that turns around, onto which wet clay is placed so that it can be shaped by hand into a pot

potter's wheelBrE /ˌpɒtəz ˈwiːl/ 🔊NAmE /ˌpɑːtərz ˈwiːl/ 🔊 noun

a piece of equipment with a flat disc that goes around, on which potters put wet clay in order to shape it into pots 陶钧（制陶用的转轮）