This spinning implement has the spindle of a simple wool wheel, mounted on a vertical support. In place of a large driving ving wheel, with a long cord or belt stretches across to a pulley attached to a window sill or other point. The spinner pulls the cord to operate the spindle as she walks to and fro in place of striking a wheel to drive a belt. This tool was originally owned by Dundee and Nacy Sherman, of Massachusetts, who married in 1811. They took it with them when they moved to Ohio in 1831.