Bobbin holders

Usage examples of spindles.

The spindles were fixed between the seat and the wide slab of radius-cut pine that served as the headrail, and the headrail was so solid that it would do major damage if it cracked into her cervical vertebrae with sufficient force.

Rosie had still been a baby, not quite crawling, in little danger yet of spindles and spindle ends.

The coffee was served, they waited while Poletti fumbled the tape onto the spindles with his short, hairy fingers.

Greasy sheep farmers mingled with her serving maids, who used their spindles to keep the men at bay when they became too bold.

It was wound between the spindles of the rail-back chair, behind the tie-on pad.

The chair was solid, the spindles were thick, and every joint was well made.

In spite of her thick socks, her ankles felt as though they had been bruised and abraded by the shackles, and her left wrist stung where she had skinned it while trying to yank the spindles out of the back of the chair.

Then she would have to turn her attention to the five sturdy spindles in the back of the chair to free the upper chain, and not even a carnival contortionist born with rubber bones could get at them with a saw while pinioned as Chyna was.

They were curved, and it seemed to Chyna that the radius would help focus the impact on one or two spindles at a time instead of spreading, it across the four.