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
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
One widely shared video shows a woman spinning yarn on a traditional hand spindle as a Kashmiri folk song plays in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025
She would pull it through her fingers while the drop spindle, a big top, was spinning on the floor.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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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
Above their bent heads, huge spindles pound steam- powered fists.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
And the baseball imagination has been staggered, stretched, folded, spindled and mutilated for generations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2017
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
Therefore are thy children dwindled, Therefore is thine altar bare; Wheat, and rye, and millet spindled, And the fruits of earth despair.
From Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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
Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The young ogresses were tall and spindling creatures, as slim as young giraffes.
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
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