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

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

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

Fusiform :: Fusiform (a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell..

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel.

Spin :: Spin (v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis..

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

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom..

Toe :: Toe (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step..

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

Headstock :: Headstock (n.) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock..

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

Axle :: Axle (n.) The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel..

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

Footstalk :: Footstalk (n.) The lower part of a millstone spindle. It rests in a step.

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

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

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

Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

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..

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