Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts.
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Examples for "spindle "
Examples for "spindle "
1 Type 2 cases also had greater cytologic atypia within the spindle cells.
2 The king ordered that every spindle in the whole land be burned.
3 The true diameter is then calipered the same as in spindle work.
4 Then she threw the spindle into the well, and jumped in herself.
5 The maiden went back to the spring to look for the spindle .
1 Hide Bolly and Silvermane in the little arbor down in the orchard.
2 I must read my letter; and she ran off to the arbor .
3 After that it had vanished until it had re-appeared in this arbor .
4 Philidor sat for a long while in the arbor smoking a pipe.
5 He searched for the darkest arbor , and hid in its farthest corner.
1 The discs are made by pouring lead round the screw-nose of the mandrel .
2 A wooden mandrel is prepared of the proper size and shape.
3 All of these wheels should be fitted to one end of the mandrel .
4 This is best done on a lathe with a hollow mandrel ..
5 The disc is, of course, mounted on the mandrel , and the work on the slide-rest.
1 Before their eyes he made pipe-spirally wound around a mandril and line-weldedto solidity.
2 Darwin's correspondent (page 710) reports that a mandril seemed to be proud of a bare spot.
3 A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum.
4 The Mandril appeared to have quite forgotten his dislike of beggars.
5 After filling her pockets and picking up her gathersack, she made her way to Mandril .
6 On the Continent the operatives make them with punches in as many as five different mandrils .
7 The Mandril threw himself wildly into the argument.
8 * The word "Mormon" in zoology is the generic name of certain animals, including the mandril baboon.
9 "I'm glad for your sake, dear Mandril , that you have fallen in with our views," said Slip.
10 "He's going to drink it," screamed the Mandril ; "battery will fire a salvo;" and he seized two oranges from the sideboard.
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