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noun. A rod or pin, tapered at one end and usually weighted at the other, on which fibers are spun by hand into thread and then wound.

noun. A similar rod or pin used for spinning on a spinning wheel.

noun. A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.

noun. Any of various mechanical parts that revolve or serve as axes for larger revolving parts, as in a lock, axle, phonograph turntable, or lathe.

noun. Any of various long thin stationary rods, as.

noun. A spike on which papers may be impaled.

noun. A baluster.

noun. A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.

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intransitive verb. To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.

intransitive verb. To impale or perforate on a spindle.

intransitive verb. To grow into a thin, elongated, or weak form.

To shoot or grow in a long, slender stalk or body.

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noun. In hand-spinning, a small bar, usually of wood, hung to the end of the thread as it is first drawn from the mass of fiber on the distaff.

noun. The pin which is used in spinning-wheels for twisting the thread, and on which the thread, when twisted, is wound. See cut under spinning-wheel.

noun. One of the skewers or axes of a spinning-machine upon which a bobbin is placed to wind the yarn as it is spun. See cut under spinning-jenny.

noun. Any slender pointed rod or pin which turns round, or on which anything turns.

noun. Something having the form of a spindle (sense 1); a fusiform object.

noun. The roll of not yet unfolded leaves on a growing plant of Indian corn.

noun. In conchology, a spindle shell.

noun. In anatomy, a fusiform part or organ.

noun. A spindle-cell.

noun. The inner segment of a rod or cone of the bacillary layer of the retina. See cut under retina.

noun. In embryology, one of the fusiform figures produced by chromatin fibers in the process of karyokinesis.

noun. In geometry, a solid generated by the revolution of the arc of a curve-line about its chord, in opposition to a conoid, which is a solid generated by the revolution of a curve about its axis.

noun. A measure of yarn: in cotton a spindle of 18 hanks is 15.120 yards; in linen a spindle of 48 cuts is 14,400 yards.

noun. A long slender stalk.

noun. Something very thin and slender.

intransitive verb. To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

noun. 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.

noun. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis.

noun. 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.

noun. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

noun. A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

noun. The fusee of a watch.

noun. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

noun. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

noun. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

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noun. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

noun. Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

noun. a spindle in a machine tool that does not revolve; the spindle of the tailstock of a lathe.

noun. the revolving spindle of a machine tool; the spindle of the headstock of a turning lathe.

noun. See Spindle, 7. above.

noun. the female side in descent; in the female line; opposed to spear side.

noun. any shrub or tree of the genus Eunymus. The wood of E. Europæus was used for spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.

noun. A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

"And now I have to figure out when the spindle is full, and how to ply it ...."

achromatic spindle  directive spindle  elastic spindle  mozambique spindles  nissl spindies  

spindled  spindling  

fiber  fibre  holding device  piece  rotating shaft  

Tindal  Tindall  Tyndall  bindle  brindle  

axle  chuck  cylinder  disc  lathe  

arbor  axis  axis  axle  axle bar  

spindle stromb  

spindled  spindles  spindling