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Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Puppet :: Puppet (n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane..

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

Euonymus :: Euonymus (n.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

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

Pinion :: Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis..

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

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

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

Whirl :: Whirl (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached..

Quill :: Quill (n.) A hollow spindle.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

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

Arbor :: Arbor (n.) An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

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..

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

Bridgepot :: Bridgepot (n.) The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone 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.

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

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