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mandril Definition


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mandrel
mandril
noun
    technical:
    1. The rotating shaft on a lathe that the object being worked on is fixed to.
    2. The axle of a circular saw or grinding wheel.
Etymology: 16c as manderelle in original sense ‘a miner's pick': related to French mandrin lathe.



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