spindle

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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

Then push the spindle against something hard to slide the motor assembly out the bottom.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

"UMNs and spindle neurons look nothing alike and live in very different areas of the brain" said Sebastian Pineda, lead author of the study, and a graduate student jointly supervised by Heiman and Kellis.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024

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

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams