MANDRIL
- mandrel (a shaft on which a tool is mounted) [n MANDRILS]
- a shaft on which a tool is mounted, also MANDREL [n -S]
- a usually tapered or cylindrical axle, spindle, or arbor inserted into a hole in a piece of work to support it during machining
- metal bar that serves as a core around which material (as metal) may be cast, molded, forged, bent, or otherwise shaped
- shaft or bar the end of which is inserted into a workpiece to hold it during machining
- spindle on which a circular saw or grinding wheel rotates
- the driving spindle in the headstock of a lathe