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

My mother and grandmother sat on creaky wooden chairs with pink cushions tied to the spindles.

From Salon

When the titular unicorn first appears on her spindle legs, she tosses her delicate head and blue-white mane in haughty confusion.

From Salon

“Every time things got interesting, the spindle would stick or something else would go wrong and I had to get up and fix it,” he recalled.

From Washington Post

The discovery of specialty artifacts like clay spindle whorls helps identify where fabric was once made.

From New York Times