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

The team utilized innovative techniques -- including in vitro reconstructions of hippocampal subregions and microfluidic tunnels for single axon communication -- to observe spontaneous spindle waves in isolated hippocampal neurons.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

I dozed off again, and after a while I felt a soft fumbling about my face, noiseless, like fingers on spindle cotton.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya