Spindle

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The word spindle has several meanings:

• A spindle (shrub), a poisonous shrub or small tree of the genus Euonymus.

• A spindle is a measure of cotton equal to 18 [hanks]].

• A spindle (stationery), a device for holding paper documents.

• A spindle (textiles), a device for spin fibres into thread.

• A spindle is the plastic container in which blank CDs and DVD-Rs are often sold.

• A spindle is the axis on which the platters of a computer hard disk spin.

• A spindle is a woodworking machine rotating on a vertical axis in which shaped cutters are mounted for cutting mouldings, rebates and similar features in wood. It does (usually on a bigger scale) many of the non-routing jobs done by a modern portable (spindle) router.

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