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    1. The spindle limbed bushes that edged the footpath seemed to


    2. The spindle limbed bushes that edged the footpath seemed to tangle and spin around her, casting her into the middle of a trawling net


    3. He managed to shuffle and drag himself upright, until, bowed and spindle thin, he finally stood free of the wall


    4. The tips of leaves sway delicately on spindle stemmed shoots


    5. The industrial levels in this area were such a maze of plank-ups on hunks of old archwood spindle


    6. The three capital improvements are, first, the exchange of the rock and spindle for the spinning-wheel, which, with the same quantity of labour, will perform more than double the quantity of work


    7. I had made a backwards turn: I thought about spinning the spindle the other way around


    8. strengthens her arms; she perceives that her merchandise is good; her candle goes not out by night; she lays her hands to the spindle,


    9. up to expose the spindle and the tap washer


    10. v19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff

    11. what spindle speed and feedrate


    12. These formulas accept as inputs surface speed and tool diameter to calculate spindle rpm, and they accept number of


    13. "Inverted Spindle Lathes" and are a potent alternative to bar fed lathes


    14. surface speed by cutting the spindle rpm will reduce the heat generated


    15. How the heck can more spindle rpms reduce heat?


    16. The machine's spindle is powered by a


    17. Suppose I told you your machine spindle


    18. 001" of runout? You'd be wanting to have that spindle rebuilt and would


    19. flutes and the spindle rpm create a rhythmic pulsing, which is exactly what


    20. Deflection is shown right below the calculation of spindle power used in the

    21. side (based on spindle revolution) that results in climb milling where the chip


    22. Guards on grinders shall cover the spindle end, nut and flange projections


    23. He hefted the spool of the spindle


    24. like the center point of a spinning spindle, it moves


    25. Spindle: The pin used in spinning wheels for twisting the thread when sewing


    26. The spindle turned on the knees of Necessity, and a Siren stood hymning upon each circle, while Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, the daughters of Necessity, sat on thrones at equal intervals, singing of past, present, and future, responsive to the music of the Sirens; Clotho from time to time guiding the outer circle with a touch of her right hand; Atropos with her left hand touching and guiding the inner circles; Lachesis in turn putting forth her hand from time to time to guide both of them


    27. He first of all brought them under the hand of Clotho, and drew them within the revolution of the spindle impelled by her hand; from her they were carried to Atropos, who made the threads irreversible; whence, without turning round, they passed beneath the throne of Necessity; and when they had all passed, they moved on in scorching heat to the plain of Forgetfulness and rested at evening by the river Unmindful, whose water could not be retained in any vessel; of this they had all to drink a certain quantity--some of them drank more than was required, and he who drank forgot all things


    28. Astronomy is mingled with symbolism and mythology; the great sphere of heaven is represented under the symbol of a cylinder or box, containing the seven orbits of the planets and the fixed stars; this is suspended from an axis or spindle which turns on the knees of Necessity; the revolutions of the seven orbits contained in the cylinder are guided by the fates, and their harmonious motion produces the music of the spheres


    29. Through the innermost or eighth of these, which is the moon, is passed the spindle; but it is doubtful whether this is the continuation of the column of light, from which the pilgrims contemplate the heavens; the words of Plato imply that they are connected, but not the same


    30. The spindle (which is of adamant) is fastened to the ends of the chains which extend to the middle of the column of light--this column is said to hold together the heaven; but whether it hangs from the spindle, or is at right angles to it, is not explained

    31. The description of the axis as a spindle, and of the heavenly bodies as forming a whole, partly arises out of the attempt to connect the motions of the heavenly bodies with the mythological image of the web, or weaving of the Fates


    32. From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn


    33. The shaft and hook of this spindle are made of steel, and the whorl is made partly of steel and also partly of other materials


    34. This is pierced by the spindle, which is driven home through the centre of the eighth


    35. Now the whole spindle has the same motion; but, as the whole revolves in one direction, the seven inner circles move slowly in the other, and of these the swiftest is the eighth; next in swiftness are the seventh, sixth, and fifth, which move together; third in swiftness appeared to move according to the law of this reversed motion the fourth; the third appeared fourth and the second fifth


    36. The spindle turns on the knees of Necessity; and on the upper surface of each circle is a siren, who goes round with them, hymning a single tone or note


    37. The eight together form one harmony; and round about, at equal intervals, there is another band, three in number, each sitting upon her throne: these are the Fates, daughters of Necessity, who are clothed in white robes and have chaplets upon their heads, Lachesis and Clotho and Atropos, who accompany with their voices the harmony of the sirens--Lachesis singing of the past, Clotho of the present, Atropos of the future; Clotho from time to time assisting with a touch of her right hand the revolution of the outer circle of the whorl or spindle, and Atropos with her left hand touching and guiding the inner ones, and Lachesis laying hold of either in turn, first with one hand and then with the other


    38. All the souls had now chosen their lives, and they went in the order of their choice to Lachesis, who sent with them the genius whom they had severally chosen, to be the guardian of their lives and the fulfiller of the choice: this genius led the souls first to Clotho, and drew them within the revolution of the spindle impelled by her hand, thus ratifying the destiny of each; and then, when they were fastened to this, carried them to Atropos, who spun the threads and made them irreversible, whence without turning round they passed beneath the throne of Necessity; and when they had all passed, they marched on in a scorching heat to the plain of Forgetfulness, which was a barren waste destitute of trees and verdure; and then towards evening they encamped by the river of Unmindfulness, whose water no vessel can hold; of this they were all obliged to drink a certain quantity, and those who were not saved by wisdom drank more than was necessary; and each one as he drank forgot all things


    39. Inside curves can be sanded by hand or with a spindle or


    40. And yet in the midst of this turmoil, the Nautilus lived up to that saying of an expert engineer: "A well–constructed hull can defy any sea!" This submersible was no resisting rock that waves could demolish; it was a steel spindle, obediently in motion, without rigging or masting, and able to brave their fury with impunity

    41. Then she slots the record on the spindle of Etienne’s electrophone


    42. At the foot of the turf cliff, Hazel and his companions were crouching under the low branches of two or three spindle trees


    43. Now they lay under the spindle trees and sniffed in weariness and doubt at the strange, bare country round them


    44. They found themselves in open farmland -- indeed, they could both smell and hear the farm, not far away on the evening side -- and the going was easy: smooth, wide pasture fields, sloping gently downhill and divided not by hedges but by broad, low banks, each as wide as a lane and overgrown with elder, dogwood and spindle


    45. The gnats still danced in the bright air, but the swifts that had swooped of a robin sounded from the top of a spindle tree


    46. ‘You took me by surprise,’ Spindle said, smiling


    47. Spindle glowed until Thaniel took out the watch, when his face changed


    48. Spindle made an interested noise


    49. ‘This clockwork behind the main mechanism was made to work for only fourteen and a half hours,’ Spindle said at last


    50. Spindle adjusted the microscope so that the lens almost touched the workings of the watch






























    1. The fellow's kinky wool was built up into horn-like spindles with twigs and dried mud


    2. From the tiny, metal statue sticking out from the front to the wheels with shiny spindles in the center, it gave off an aura opposite of the futuristic SST


    3. Nearby, in the spindles of a dead tree came the hungry screeches of her young


    4. He picked among the spindles the strongest roll of thread he could find, jumping out of the way of a wooden shuttle Momma Bear broke off


    5. eyes peered through the spindles of the


    6. boyfriend"s eyes peered through the spindles of


    7. Spokeshaves – this is a type of plane used primarily to round edges, make spindles


    8. But the king hoped to save his dear child from the threatened evil, and ordered that all the spindles in the kingdom should be bought up and destroyed


    9. The spoken words that are inaudible among the flying spindles; those same words are plainly heard without the walls, bursting from the opened casements


    1. spindling demoiselle, like her namesake the insect; her mouth was disdainful; over it hung a nose that was too long, thick at the end, sallow in its normal condition, but very red after a meal,—a sort of vegetable phenomenon which is particularly disagreeable when it appears in the middle of a pale, dull, and uninteresting face


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    Synonyms for "spindle"

    spike spindle arbor mandrel mandril beam axle arbour

    "spindle" definitions

    (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle


    a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.


    any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts


    a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning


    any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object