turning wheel
Revolving circular motion
A turning wheel is a potter's wheel—the rotating disk on which clay is shaped into pottery.
The phrase emphasizes the wheel in motion, essential to the craft: She centered the clay on the turning wheel.
Figuratively, a turning wheel can represent cycles, fate, or continuous change, evoking the wheel of fortune or time's passage.
- spinningRevolving around an axis
- rotationTurning on an axis
- axleShaft for wheel rotation
- hubCentral connection point
- spokeCommunicated verbally
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