spindle
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They located an original spindle and replicated it, including the complex crane cutouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
From re-creating each staircase spindle to replicating 19th-century windows, a relocated Queen Anne gets a family-friendly update that honors its past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Ellie Knot, of Devon Biodiversity Records Centre, said there were eight species of ermine moth, so it was hard to tell if these were spindle ermine.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Long processions of women, many of them bearing a takli or spindle to honour Gandhi's commitment to homespun khadi cloth, take over Bombay's streets, quite literally pushing men to the very margins.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025
In her hands she holds a spindle, and on it she spins the threads of your child’s life.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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“I could’ve just gone online to Home Depot, cut their spindles in half and thrown them up on the porch,” Cain said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Only about a yard of this is visible; the rest is wound on horizontal spindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
For decades, slow waves and sleep spindles have been identified as essential elements of deep sleep, measured through electroencephalography recordings on the scalp.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Stage two also includes unique brain activity, called spindles and K-complexes, which are short bursts of activity responsible for processing outside stimuli, as well as for consolidating memory.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
So he mounted the stairs, the worn bare treads, the cracked and scaling wall on one side, the balustrade with its intermittent missing spindles on the other.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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Matted in dead leaves, it wound past snatches of green fern that spindled down the hillsides.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2022
The illusions in two-dimensional imagery are contradicted by flat surfaces that he’s folded, spindled and otherwise mutilated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
This enterprise came about prior to Purdue being juridically spindled into creating an abuse proof reformulation.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2015
Edwin Jackson folded, spindled and mutilated his former team in the 's home opener — an impressive feat even if those Rays are 0-6 with a .146 team batting average.
From Chicago Tribune ● Apr. 7, 2011
At its summit rose up a second cone, turned upside down and spindled on its point; its enormous mass threatened to crush the ship, as it was oscillating and ready to fall.
From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
Dior’s saddle bags, spindling stiletto heels, Tiffany & Co.’s heart-shaped charm bracelets — all visual elements of Paris Hilton’s “rich bitch” phenomenon — heralded a trend for brazen excess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
Take private classes in felting, drop spindling, rug hooking, natural dyeing and basic weaving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2015
At Choate, in 1931, Teacher Fitts took spindling, six-foot Student Laughlin in hand, introduced him to the work of such dedicated modern versifiers as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and E. E. Cummings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There was the little window that he knew opened on the poor vegetable garden, with its spindling corn, and its beans for soup and coffee.
From The Quality of Mercy by William Dean Howells
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