spindling

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In a subduction zone, you get some really wild rocks, rocks that’ve been through it, rocks that have been chewed up and spit out, rocks that, were they a letter, would get the post office in deep trouble for the amount of folding, spindling and mutilating they’ve endured.

From Scientific American

Above the tiny grass-plat and spindling poplars in Mount Vernon Square floats the magic of a night in mid-June.

From Project Gutenberg

Late in March and early in April rain again fell, delaying the annual ceremony of the Swearing to the Flag, but making the spindling corn fill out in a magical fashion and the beans that had begun to shrivel and blacken become erect and juicy.

From Project Gutenberg

Spindling, rusty Snowberry bushes were by the gate, and Snowballs also, or our native Viburnums.

From Project Gutenberg

In my initial illustration is shown a sketch of the Figwort, or scrophularia, a tall, spindling weed, with rather fine, luxuriant leaves, it is true, but with a tall, curiously branching spray of small, insignificant purplish-olive flowers, with not even a perfume, like the mignonette, to atone for its plainness.

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