pottery wheel throwing; shaping ceramics on a wheel
Refers to the act of shaping clay on a potter's wheel, or the spinning of the wheel itself. A standard term in pottery contexts.
She is very skilled at throwing on the pottery wheel.
hand gestures mimicking pottery wheel work
Slang, humorous. Describes gesticulating with both hands as if shaping clay on a wheel, often when someone is talking excitedly or trying to explain something.
He was making hand gestures like a pottery wheel thrower while talking.
Standard spelling; ろくろ is commonly written in kana.
Rare kanji form using 轆轤 for ろくろ; mainly encountered in older or specialized texts.
Compound of ろくろ (potter's wheel) + 回し (turning, from 回す). The slang sense derives from the resemblance of hand movements to the action of shaping clay on a wheel.