saxon wheel

saxon wheel
noun or saxony wheel
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: so called from its being the invention of a 16th century German wood-carver
: a flax-spinning treadle machine in which the bobbin lags behind the fly with the spindle giving the twist to the yarn and the difference of speeds of the spindle and bobbin causing the bobbin to be wound

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