How do you spell Spindle
Available Definitions:
1) 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.
2) n. - A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
3) 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.
4) n. - The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
5) n. - A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
6) n. - The fusee of a watch.
7) n. - A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
8) n. - A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
9) n. - A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
10) n. - Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
11) n. - Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
12) v. i. - To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
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