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Spline

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slatnounA thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.

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slatnounA thin, narrow strip or bar of wood (lath), metal, or plastic.
splinedHaving a spline or splines.
keywaynounThe groove within a modern lock that the key slides into; any lock's keyhole.
feathernounA branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
spindlingnounAnything long and slender, like a shoot.
ducknounAn aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
spindlenoun(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
splining machinenounA machine tool for cutting grooves, key seats, or slots; a slotting machine.
spinnelnoun(dialect) Spindle.
skeinnounA quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
stringnoun(countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
spurnoun(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
trindlenoun(dialectal) A wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
snailnounAny of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
striplinenoun(physics) A form of electromagnetic transmission medium that uses a flat strip of metal sandwiched between dielectrics
shimnounA wedge.
spinulanounAlternative form of spinule. [A minute spine or thorn.]
straining piecenounSynonym of straining beam
spolenounThe small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.
spoolnounA reel; a device around which thread, wire or cable is wound, especially a cylinder or spindle.

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