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Bridgetree :: Bridgetree (n.) The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill.

Cockhead :: Cockhead (n.) The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Moline :: Moline (n.) The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle..

Damsel :: Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.

Spindlelegs :: Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs..

Spindle-shaped :: Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

Trendle :: Trendle (v. i.) A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle..

Whorl :: Whorl (n. & v.) The fly of a spindle.

Pseudonavicula :: Pseudonavicula (n.) One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarinae and some other Protozoa.

Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..

Acorn :: Acorn (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head..

Parsnip :: Parsnip (n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle..

Hasp :: Hasp (n.) A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on..

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Heer :: Heer (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.

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