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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..

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

Spindled :: Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

Spindletail :: Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots..

Amphiaster :: Amphiaster (n.) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle..

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

Euonymin :: Euonymin (n.) A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree..

Windle :: Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

Nonagrian :: Nonagrian (n.) Any moth of the genus Nonagria and allied genera, as the spindleworm and stalk borer..

Flyer :: Flyer (n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11..

Driver :: Driver (n.) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier..

Spindle-shaped :: Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards..

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

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

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A spindle.

Journal :: "Journal (a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

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..

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