"In pottery, a potter´s wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of round ceramic ware known as clay. The wheel may also ...
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be used during the process of trimming the excess body from leather hard dried ware (stiff but malleable), and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour. Use of the potter´s wheel became widespread throughout the Old World but was unknown in the Pre-Columbian New World, where pottery was handmade by methods that included coiling and beating.
A potter´s wheel may occasionally be referred to as a "potter´s lathe". However, that term is better used for another kind of machine that is used for a different shaping process, turning, similar to that used for shaping of metal and wooden articles." - (en.wikipedia.org 25.12.2021)
