drop spindle
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They gave women spinning wheels, a much more efficient way to create yarn than the traditional spindle whorls used on the drop spindle.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
She suggests that the statue held a distaff of fluffy fibers in her upraised left arm, while with her right she guided the thread toward a weighted drop spindle hanging in front of her.
From Slate ● May 1, 2015
We didn’t have a spinning wheel, so she used a drop spindle to make thread out of the clumps of clean cotton that Grandma Charity and I pulled.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
She would pull it through her fingers while the drop spindle, a big top, was spinning on the floor.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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