Spindle(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
Spindle(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
Spindle(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
Spindle(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spindle(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
Spindle(n.) The fusee of a watch.
Spindle(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Spindle(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Spindle(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Spindled(imp. & p. p.) of Spindle
Spindling(a.) Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
Spindling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spindle
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