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Definition of Spindles
1. spindle [v] - See also: spindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spindles
Literary usage of Spindles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Manufactures in the United States by Victor Selden Clark (1916)
"Within this older region, geographical as well as plant concentration continued.
In 1840 more than two-thirds of the spindles in Pennsylvania were within 30 ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"There are now being built two more mills, to work 80000 spindles, which will be
in running order in the course of a year, and will consume about 7.500 bales ..."
3. The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide: A Practical by Robert H. Baird (1851)
"Reasoning from experience, we may say that there are no spindles superior to the
live spindle and flier, provided it is well made and kept in good order. ..."
4. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana (1850)
"It will be seen by this account that there are in operation in the Western Valley
ninety-three thousand two hundred spindles ; and the additions to be made ..."
5. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"To supply raw material for those spindles, there was last year produced in the
United States 4600000 bales, and there was derived from India 573000 bales; ..."
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