mandrel
noun
a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
mandril
-
a variation of
mandrel.
Example Sentences
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Hollow work, as nuts and washers, may be equally operated on being driven by a mandril held in the chuck.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Before their eyes he made pipe—spirally wound around a mandril and line-welded to solidity.
From The Pirates of Ersatz by Kelly Freas
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 Halbert Powers Gillette
The word "Mormon" in zoology is the generic name of certain animals, including the mandril baboon.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
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 Havelock Ellis
