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One edge of the netting is fastened to the platform, the other edge is attached to the winding mandril.

From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Gillette, Halbert Powers

What these characters indicate may be learned from the male mandril, whose face, particularly in the breeding season, shows colored fleshy prominences each side of the nose, with conspicuous furrows and ridges.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Ellis, Havelock

There is another method of cutting screws in a lathe by means of one pattern screw, which, being connected by wheels with the mandril, guides the cutting point.

From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Babbage, Charles

If the mandril move quicker than the cutting point, the screw which is produced will be finer than the original; if it move slower, the copy will be more coarse than the original.

From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Babbage, Charles

In this process, unless the time of revolution of the mandril is the same as that of the screw which guides the cutting point, the number of threads in a given length will be different.

From On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Babbage, Charles