spin'le

Updated: May 23, 2025

I tried to explain that since all this seeming movement of the stars around us was but our own daily and yearly turning, there would necessarily be two opposite points on our earth which would never move at all, and that any star directly in line with those two points would seem as still as they. "Like de p'int o' de spin'le on de spinnin'-wheel, Miss Maud?

George Washington Cable - The Flower of the Chapdelaines