EGAVE

mandrel

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
  2. noun A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
  3. verb To shape with a mandrel.

Similar words

arbor spindle mandril chuck continent manderil triboulet triblet former bender

Often followed by

is and to or in of with for which

Word family

mandrels mandril mandrils

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