A spindle is a narrow wooden rod that's used when spinning wool. If your aunt has a spinning wheel for making yarn from the wool of her sheep, it must have a spindle on it for twisting the fibers.
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 stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
Noun
any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
Noun
(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"
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.
n.
A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as,
the spindle of a vane.
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.
n.
The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill
turns.
n.
A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
n.
The fusee of a watch.
n.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
n.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards;
in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
n.
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about
its base or double ordinate or chord.
n.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; --
called also spindle stromb.
n.
Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
v. i.
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to
become disproportionately tall and slender.
Spindle
Spindle
It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.
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.
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Usage Examples
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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