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

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

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..

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

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

Gatten Tree :: Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus)..

Driver :: Driver (n.) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Spindle-shaped :: Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt..

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

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Ink :: Ink (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.

Spindled :: Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

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