'Potter's wheel' definitions:

Definition of 'potter's wheel'

noun

A horizontal rotating wheel holding the clay being shaped by a potter; "the potter's wheel was invented in Asia Minor around 6500 BC"

From: GCIDE

Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii. 9. [1913 Webster]
The potter heard, and stopped his wheel. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
3. One who pots meats or other eatables. [1913 Webster]
4. (Zool.) The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin. [1913 Webster]
Potter's asthma (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so called because very prevalent among potters. --Parkers.
Potter's clay. See under Clay.
Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in --Matt. xxvii. 7.
Potter's ore. See Alquifou.
Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. "My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel." --Shak.
Potter wasp (Zool.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as cankerworms, as food for its young. [1913 Webster]