spindle

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Once that initial stable attachment appears, alignment follows naturally through the geometry of the spindle and the behavior of microtubules.

From Science Daily • Dec. 10, 2025

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

Then push the spindle against something hard to slide the motor assembly out the bottom.

From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024

I dozed off again, and after a while I felt a soft fumbling about my face, noiseless, like fingers on spindle cotton.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya