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mandril

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Core Chucks & Shafts
Mandrels, air, mechanical, shafts leaf & lug type, 3/4" to 12" dia.
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man⋅drel

  [man-druhl]
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–noun Machinery.
1. a shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining.
2. a spindle on which a circular saw or grinding wheel rotates.
3. the driving spindle in the headstock of a lathe.
Also, mandril.

Origin:
1510–20; perh. akin to F mandrin
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Core Chucks & Shafts
Mandrels, air, mechanical, shafts leaf & lug type, 3/4" to 12" dia.
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Mandril
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man·drel or man·dril   (mān'drəl)   
n.  

  1. A spindle or an axle used to secure or support material being machined or milled.

  2. A metal rod or bar around which material, such as metal or glass, may be shaped.

  3. A shaft on which a working tool is mounted, as in a dental drill.


[Possibly alteration of French mandrin, lathe, from Provençal mandre, axle, crank, from Old Provençal, beam of a balance, from Latin mamphur, bow-drill, perhaps from Oscan.]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: man·drel
Variant: also man·dril /'man-dr&l/
Function: noun
: the shaft and bearings on which a tool (as adental grinding disk) is mounted
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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mandrel man·drel or man·dril (mān'drəl)
n.

  1. A shaft on which a working tool is mounted, as in a dental drill.

  2. See mandrin.

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