Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with an internal ratcheting mechanism that clicks every two revolutions and makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured.[1]
This is also a possible source for the word "weasel" in the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel.[2]
A handleheld reel (with no counter) is called a niddy noddy.
References
- ^ D. D. Volo, Family Life in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century America (Greenwood, 2006), p. 264.
- ^ Pop Goes the Weasel, The Phrase Finder, http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/pop-goes-the-weasel.html
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