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Wool Spinning Spindle Crossword Clue

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noun

• the sphere of work by women

• the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning

adjective satellite

• characteristic of or peculiar to a woman

32%7Spinning about orbits spinning
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32%9Spindle in a spinning machine
noun

• Shafts collectively.

• A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

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