Spindle ¹

Definition: 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 ²

Definition: A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

Spindle ³

Definition: 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 ⁴

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

Spindle ⁵

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

Spindle ⁶

Definition: The fusee of a watch.

Spindle ⁷

Definition: A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindle ⁸

Definition: A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, yards; in linen yarn, yards.

Spindle ⁹

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

Spindle ¹⁰

Definition: Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; called also spindle stromb.

Spindle ¹¹

Definition: Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

Spindle ¹²

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

spindle ¹³

Definition: a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

spindle ¹⁴

Definition: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

spindle ¹⁵

Definition: (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"