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A spindle (or colloquially, a spike) is an upright spike used to temporarily hold papers. "Spindling" or "spiking" is the act of spearing an item onto the spike. A spindle was often used in restaurants to hold orders from the waitstaff to the kitchen.
Depending on what sort of records were on a spindle, a string could be put through the holes to bundle the papers together, and the bundle stored.
The journalistic term to "spike" an article refers to one that ends up spindled on an editor's desk rather than forwarded for publication, typically for reasons other than mere copyedits.
Spindling was the middle of three stern prohibitions in the famous injunction historically printed on
A spindle (or colloquially, a spike) is an upright spike used to temporarily hold papers. "Spindling" or "spiking" is the act of spearing an item onto the spike. A spindle was often used in restaurants to hold orders from the waitstaff to the kitchen.
Depending on what sort of records were on a spindle, a string could be put through the holes to bundle the papers together, and the bundle stored.
The journalistic term to "spike" an article refers to one that ends up spindled on an editor's desk rather than forwarded for publication, typically for reasons other than mere copyedits.
Spindling was the middle of three stern prohibitions in the famous injunction historically printed on punched card
A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information via the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Developed over the 18th to 20th centuries, punched cards were widel ...
documents to be processed by a computer: "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate".
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