spindle

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A whirling motion is given to the spindle on the thigh or any convenient part of the body; the spindle is then dropped, twisting the yarn, which is wound on the upper part of the spindle.

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  1. noun A rod or pin, tapered at one end and usually weighted at the other, on which fibers are spun by hand into thread and then wound.
  2. noun A similar rod or pin used for spinning on a spinning wheel.
  3. noun A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.
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  • Steven's comment about using the word spindle has been very effective for me as well. —  SSWUG.ORG Articles
  • Nucleation of microtubules is central to assembly of the mitotic spindle, which is required for each cell division. gamma-Tubulin is a universal component essential for microtubule nucleation from centrosomes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It has been proposed that, during prometaphase, the astral MT interaction with the cell cortex aligns the spindle with the cell axis [4] and also participates in a spindle orientation checkpoint (SOC), which delays entry into anaphase as long as the spindle is misaligned [5-7]. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Devo's ability to fold, spindle, and mutilate the Rolling Stones '"Satisfaction" into a brilliant, postmodern hiccup made something else crystalline clear: They were excellent musicians.
  • The tubulin monomers are dynamically redirected by the dividing cell to form the main component of the mitotic apparatus, the mitotic spindle, which is bounded by the centrosomes and begins to appear along the periphery of the nuclear membrane.
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  1. Middle English spindel, alteration of Old English spinel; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. spinnel; from Middle English spindle, spyndle, spindel, spyndel, spyndelle, spyndyl, spyndylle, from Anglo-Saxon spindle, spindel, earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (dative spinele, spinle) (= Middle Dutch spille (by assimilation for *spinle), Dutch spil = Old High German spinnela, spinnila, spinnala, Middle High German spinnele, spinnel, German spindel (also spille, from D.) = Swedish Danish spindel), a spindle, from spinnan, spin: see spin. Cf. spill.
  2. from spindle, n.
 

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