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n. - Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts.

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  • I opened it up with a mandril Saturday night and we'll see how it goes tonight at band rehearsal.
  • One edge of the netting is fastened to the platform, the other edge is attached to the winding mandril.
  • This method consists in rolling a sheet of concrete and wire netting into a solid cylinder on a mandril, by means of a special machine.
  • A rival attraction already occupies the field in the person of a Tabreez Turkish luti with a performing rib-nosed mandril and a drum.
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  • Hanging from the tip of the glassblower's "mandrel/mandril" (metal bar) was the commissioned gift for the matriarch's 70th birthday -- the unmistakable form of a "mandrill" (a baboon).
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