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Definition of Spindle

Spindle 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. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane. 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. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. The fusee of a watch. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb. Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender. Related Definitions: About, Also, An, And, Any, Anything, Arbor, As, Axis, Base, Become, Bobbin, Body, By, Called, Carries, Center, Chord, Containing, Core, Cotton, Curved, Double, Drilling, Formed, Fusee, Gastropod, Generated, Genus, Grinding, Grow, Held, In, Into, Is, It, Lathe, Line, Linen, Long, Loom, Machine, Mandrel, Marine, Measure, Mill, Of, On, Or, Ordinate, Pin, Pipe, Resembling, Revolution, Revolve, Rod, Round, Runner, Sand, Shaft, Shell, Shoot, Shuttle, Slender, Solid, Spindle, Spinning, Stalk, Stromb, Tall, The, Thread, To, Tool, Twisted, Univalve, Vane, Vertical, Watch, When, Which, Work, Wound, Yarn

Spindle Translations spindle in Dutch is spoel spindle in German is Spindel spindle in Portuguese is eixo spindle in Spanish is huso spindle in Swedish is axel

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