Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
AS. spinal, fr. spinnan, to spin; akin to D. spil, G. spille, spindel, OHG. spinnala,. √170. See Spin
In literature:
The whatnot was shaky, having only three short, spindle legs.
"The Corner House Girls at School" by Grace Brooks Hill
The bait was to be placed on this spindle and a tug upon it would let go the trap-door.
"Black Bruin" by Clarence Hawkes
This makes them grow spindling.
"A Treatise on Domestic Economy" by Catherine Esther Beecher
Halla sits down, turning her spindle.
"Modern Icelandic Plays" by Jóhann Sigurjónsson
A very small class instructed by an able teacher, is like a factory of a hundred spindles, with a water-wheel of power sufficient for a thousand.
"The Teacher" by Jacob Abbott
Can you see a spindle-legged, mischievous boy of ten, who loved his little sister dearly; but teased her from morning until night.
"'Smiles'" by Eliot H. Robinson
He loosened the string a bit and twisted it once about his spindle.
"An American Robinson Crusoe" by Samuel. B. Allison
It presents the appearance of a very top-heavy head on a very spindling stem.
"Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting" by Northern Nut Growers Association
The spindle had three holes in it, in which staves were thrust as levers, to turn it and hold the ropes taut.
"Adam Johnstone's Son" by F. Marion Crawford
The thing passed above the moon, and was, by other observers, described as "cigar-shaped," "like a torpedo," "a spindle," "a shuttle.
"The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort
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In poetry:
Now they wax, and now they dwindle,
Whirling with the whirling spindle.
Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle human bliss and woe.
"Twist Ye, Twine Ye" by Sir Walter Scott
She buyeth fields, she planteth vines,
And girds herself to duty's round,
And far into the shades of night,
Her spindle plies with busy sound.
"A Virtuous Woman" by Thomas Frederick Young
No more alone my love the lamp should burn,
Watching the weary spindle twist and turn,
Or o’er the web hold back her tears and yearn:
O winter, O white winter, wert thou gone!
"The Two Sides Of The River" by William Morris
She spun the flax of a spindle,
And I wondered on her face;
She spun the flax of a spindle,
And I marvelled on her grace;
She spun the flax of a spindle,
And I watched a little space.
"Elphin" by Madison Julius Cawein
The mountain, at the first downpour of the rain, looked like a
giant of our people draped in a striped cloak.
The peak of Mujaimir in the flood and rush of debris looked
like a whirling spindle.
"The Poem of Imru-Ul-Quais" by Anonymous Asian
Here are no spindles, nor wheels to be whirled,
No forges nor looms from the outside world,
Stunning the ear with clamour;
You hear but the whisper of leaves unfurled,
And the tap of the woodpecker's hammer
"In the Country" by Kate Seymour Maclean
In news:
Quick-Change Spindle with Power Clamping for Standard Toolholders.
5-hp main spindle and a 7.
1967 Chevy C10 Buildup Remove Factory Spindle Brake Rotor Assembly.
Articles Tagged with "multi- spindle machines".
Hardinge Inc manufactures single-axis and dual-axis multi- spindle rotary indexers in Elmira, New York.
Available from Murata Machinery USA, the MW40 twin- spindle CNC chucker is designed to automate production of small, precision parts.
Twin- Spindle Chucker for Precise Small Parts.
2000 Chevy Silverado Mcgaughys Drop Spindles .
A couple dances to music by the Spindle Rock River Rats Saturday afternoon at Westport Town Farm .
Here's an innovative, adjustable rest for holding spindles steady.
All models have a 10-hp spindle with automatic tool changer, seven-position tool station, vacuum table, and Windows PC-based CNC Interface.
Today's smooth-running high rpm spindles not only allow shops to cut faster with standard tool designs, they also unlock the potential of tiny tools.
The Baer Track brake system comes mounted on its own spindle ready to install.
This machine tool manufacturer's modular spindle design allows spindle repairs due to impact or contamination to be performed quick and easy.
This spindle's modular design features a removable taper that makes repairs easy.
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In science:
On the other side machine has rotating spindle and a rope to lift some weight (due to rotation).
Algorithmic Information Theory and Foundations of Probability
The solution (c) has been chosen because in this case, the spindle motors is collinear to the axes of the largest focal length of the ellipse.
The eel-like robot
Our experiment consists of two cylindrical sapphire resonators of 3 cm diameter and height supported by spindles at either end within superconducting niobium cavities , which are oriented with their cylindrical axes orthogonal to each other in the horizontal plane (see Fig. 11).
Rotating Resonator-Oscillator Experiments to Test Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics
The spindles are firmly held in each lid by sprung brass bushes.
Rotating Resonator-Oscillator Experiments to Test Lorentz Invariance in Electrodynamics
We here consider checkpoints to monitor the following events or conditions: (C1) sufficient cell growth to start DNA replication, (C2) completion of DNA replication, and (C3) spindle assembly.
Stable stochastic dynamics in yeast cell cycle
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