Definitions for spindles
  • Spindle (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.
  • Spindle (n.) - A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
  • Spindle (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.
  • Spindle (n.) - The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
  • Spindle (n.) - A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
  • Spindle (n.) - The fusee of a watch.
  • Spindle (n.) - A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
  • Spindle (n.) - A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
  • Spindle (n.) - A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
  • Spindle (n.) - Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
  • Spindle (n.) - Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
  • Spindle (v. i.) - To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
  • Spindled (imp. & p. p.) - of Spindle
  • Spindleful - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Spindles - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Spindling (a.) - Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
  • Spindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Spindle
  • Spindlings - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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