Spinner's weasel
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Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound a
Popping mechanism
Knott's Berry Farm spinner Charlene Parker demonstrates how to transfer thread or yard from a spinning wheel (on left) to a spinner's weasel (on right).
Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right)
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Pop Goes the Weasel
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"Pop! Goes the Weasel" is a traditional old English song, a country dance, nursery rhyme, and singing game that emerged in the mid-19th century. The melody is often used in jack-in-the-box toys and is
Spinner's weasel
…is even more complex, with a mechanism for standardizing the tension. The clock reel is a possible source for the word "weasel" in the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel. Media related to Spinner's weasels at Wikimedia Commons…
Piano arrangement, 1853
From Singing Games (1890) by Josephine Pollard. Illustration by Ferdinand Schuyler Math
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