A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 355
Which means spindle-sha])ed, implies aform larger in the ndddle and a])proaching a pointat each end ; but the word spindle is appliedmore loosely, as to the small pieces of turnedwood which make up the grating of the Meshre-beeyeli, and equally to the turned part of a post,baluster, or other i)iece…
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