Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
mandrel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any of various shafts that rotate or serve as axes for larger rotating parts.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
mandrel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
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Examples
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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.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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A steel axis, called a mandril, having a pulley attached to the middle of it, is supported at one end either by a conical point, or by a cylindrical collar, and at the other end by another collar, through which it passes.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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I opened it up with a mandril Saturday night and we'll see how it goes tonight at band rehearsal.
10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002 John 2002
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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.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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When the tube for a length of pipe is completed the inside shell reinforcement previously made is slipped into it and the outside shell reinforcement is formed on it as a mandril, as shown by Fig. 271.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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Fig. 65 is a sketch showing a cross-section of a finished pile, in which the dotted line shows the wire netting, the hollow circle is the gas pipe mandril, and the solid circles are the longitudinal reinforcing bars.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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One edge of the netting is fastened to the platform, the other edge is attached to the winding mandril.
Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette
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Before their eyes he made pipe -- spirally wound around a mandril and line-welded to solidity.
The Pirates of Ersatz Murray Leinster 1935
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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.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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In the male mandril these characters have been developed because, being an unmistakable sign of sexual ardor, they gave the female particular evidence of sexual feelings.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
chained_bear commented on the word mandril
Also a type of ape... See usage note on pongo.
March 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word mandril
I always thought this ended in two Ls. Of course, I could be confusing it with Barbara Mandrell.
March 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mandril
I think it does, normally. That's how I've seen the word before. But here it's just one. Perhaps it's British (e.g. enrol vs. enroll) or perhaps it's archaic.
Or perhaps it's archaic British.
March 5, 2008
gangerh commented on the word mandril
A mandril with one l is not a type of ape. To be a type of ape it needs two ls. Sack your proofreader, O'Brian.
March 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word mandril
Er...he's dead, gangerh.
March 5, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mandril
There are archaic spellings all over his books. I don't think this is an instance of a lazy-ass proofreader. Or even a lazy ass-proofreader, for that matter.
March 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word mandril
My thoughts exactly.
In all my years in the business, I've never met a lazy ass-proofer. Have you?
March 5, 2008
gangerh commented on the word mandril
That explains it then, reesetee. Dead proofreader. Probably went to hel.
March 5, 2008
sionnach commented on the word mandril
Shouldn't this be persondril?
March 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word mandril
I don't know about the proofreader being dead, but the author is. Besides, as c_b pointed out, it's an archaic speling. ;-)
March 5, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mandril
I vote for humandril instead, sionnach. Wait... it's already a primate. Does it matter?
March 6, 2008