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

A new company was found, the fabrication truly European: spindle from the Czech Republic, cables and curved glass from Italy, capsules from France, the main structure from the Netherlands.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

You might need to first remove a metal or plastic ring on the brush head spindle.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

These findings suggest that spindle oscillations originate from active ion channels within axons, rather than through volume conduction as previously thought.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

And you must be thinking, How is it possible that such a spindle of a boy could find the courage to do such a thing?

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri