spindling
Example Sentences
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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
Though it all may be necessary to some distant bureaucrat�a most unlikely circumstance�when teachers comply they tend to feel like spindling, folding and mutilating all the forms.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains� The Oriental Giles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is danger in having plants too far advanced, and an unexpected delay in field setting may result in spindling and over-hardening that may prove disastrous.
From The Tomato by Work, Paul