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Bobbin
A bobbin is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which wire, yarn, thread or film is wound. Bobbins are typically found in sewing machines, cameras, and within electronic equipment. In non-electrical applications the bobbin is used for tidy storage without tangles.
In electrical applications, a coil of wire carrying a current will create a magnetic field. This effect is used in solenoids.
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Bobbin (noun)
A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
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Bobbin (noun)
In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
“Wind the bobbin, place it in the machine, and raise the thread.”
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Bobbin (noun)
The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
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Bobbin (noun)
A fine cord or narrow braid.
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Spindle (noun)
A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
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Spindle (noun)
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
“the spindle of a vane”
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Spindle (noun)
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
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Spindle (noun)
Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
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Spindle (noun)
An upright skewering.
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Spindle (noun)
The fusee of a watch.
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Spindle (noun)
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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Spindle (noun)
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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Spindle (noun)
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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Spindle (noun)
Any marine univalve shell of the genus genus; a spindle stromb.
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Spindle (noun)
Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
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Spindle (noun)
A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
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Spindle (noun)
a dragonfly
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Spindle (verb)
To make into a long tapered shape.
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Spindle (verb)
To take on a long tapered shape.
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Spindle (verb)
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
“Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.”
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Spindle (noun)
a slender rounded rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning to twist and wind thread from a mass of wool or flax held on a distaff.
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Spindle (noun)
a pin or rod used on a spinning wheel to twist and wind the thread.
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Spindle (noun)
a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.
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Spindle (noun)
a measure of length for yarn, equal to 15,120 yards (13,826 metres) for cotton or 14,400 yards (13,167 metres) for linen.
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Spindle (noun)
a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.
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Spindle (noun)
a pointed metal rod on a base, used for filing paper items.
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Spindle (noun)
a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.
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Spindle (noun)
the vertical rod at the centre of a record turntable which keeps the record in place during play.
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Spindle (noun)
a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides. At metaphase the chromosomes become attached to it by their centromeres before being pulled towards its ends.
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Spindle (noun)
a Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds. Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles.