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- noun Plural form of
spindle .
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Examples
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The name applies to any kind of wooden chair with vertical rods, called spindles.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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The name applies to any kind of wooden chair with vertical rods, called spindles.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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The name applies to any kind of wooden chair with vertical rods, called spindles.
Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002
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The machining centre has two opposite independent spindles, meaning that when high outputs are required, two parts per cycle can be machined, or one large part can be machined on both sides simultaneously.
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The machining centre has two opposite independent spindles, meaning that when high outputs are required, two parts per cycle can be machined, or one large part can be machined on both sides simultaneously.
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The machining centre has two opposite independent spindles, meaning that when high outputs are required, two parts per cycle can be machined, or one large part can be machined on both sides simultaneously.
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The machining centre has two opposite independent spindles, meaning that when high outputs are required, two parts per cycle can be machined, or one large part can be machined on both sides simultaneously.
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The study focused on how sensitivity to noise during sleep is associated with a type of brain activity called sleep "spindles," also known as brain waves.
foodconsumer.org 2010
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Separating various uses onto different spindles makes a large difference in performance.
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But Mr. Kersels's clown costume hanging upside down, with its spotlighted head—a spinning mirrorball dangling from a long cord—in "Charm (Party Clown)"; his conflation of model ship and spider web in "Charm (USS Constitution)"; and his transformation of a white chair-back's spindles—through fingernail-like Christmas bulbs—into a skeletal hand in "Charm (Hand)" achieve humor verging on pathos.
Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011
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