spindle

Example Sentences

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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

You rushed home, got the plastic off, let that waxy disc slide carefully out so it met your thumb at the edge and middle finger at the spindle hole.

From Los Angeles Times

The restaurant chain, which has over 600 locations across the United States, had sometime last year posted a series of photos of people sitting in an oversized rocking chair decked out with rainbow spindles.

From Salon

The second, of traditional design, arranged figures, from bottom upward, of bear, orca, human and a raven clutching a Coast Salish spindle.

From Seattle Times

After identifying the viroid that caused spindle tuber disease, he helped develop a test to detect it.

From New York Times