Definitions for spindle

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spindle spin·dle

Spelling: [spin-dl]

IPA: /ˈspɪn dl/

Spindle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 231 anagrams from letters in spindle (deilnps).

Definitions for spindle

noun

1. a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
2. the rod on a spinning wheel by which the thread is twisted and on which it is wound.
3. one of the rods of a spinning machine that bear the bobbins on which the spun thread is wound.
4. any rod or pin suggestive of a spindle used in spinning, as one that turns around or on which something turns; an axle, axis, or shaft.
5. a vertical shaft that serves to center a phonograph record on a turntable.
6. either of two shafts or arbors that support the work on a lathe, one (live spindle) on the headstock, rotating with and imparting motion to the work, the other (dead spindle) on the tailstock, motionless.
7. a small axis, arbor, or mandrel.
8. an iron rod or the like, usually with a ball or cage at the top, fixed to a rock, sunken reef, etc., to serve as a guide in navigation.
9. a measure of yarn, containing, for cotton, 15,120 yards (13,825 meters), and for linen, 14,400 yards (13,267 meters).
10. a hydrometer.
11. Cell Biology. a spindle-shaped structure, composed of microtubules, that forms near the cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis and, as it divides, draws the chromosomes to opposite poles of the cell.
12. a short, turned or circular ornament, as in a baluster or stair rail.
13. spindle file.
14. Eastern New England. a tassel on an ear of corn.
15. Chiefly New Jersey and Delaware Valley. dragonfly.

adjective

1. spindle side.

verb (used with object)

1. to give the form of a spindle to.
2. to provide or equip with a spindle or spindles.
3. to impale (a card or paper) on a spindle, as for sorting purposes.

verb (used without object)

1. to shoot up, or grow, into a long, slender stalk or stem, as a plant.
2. to grow tall and slender, often disproportionately so.

Origin of spindle

before 900; Middle English spindel (noun), Old English spin(e)l; see spin, -le; cognate with German Spindel

Examples for spindle

Here for the first time is seen the combination of spindle, flyer and bobbin.

Along the way, a succession of other rapacious characters flock to the spindle Gallery.

He loosened the string a bit and twisted it once about his spindle.

It is much easier to turn the latch of a door with the knob than with the spindle when the knob is off.

This is pierced by the spindle, which is driven home through the centre of the eighth.

And so comes now a contrivance for holding the spindle in this position.

She paused as she joined a long tress of wool at the spindle.

Above the spindle we began to see sailfish jumping everywhere.

From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn.

Fusus means a spindle; so called from the spindle-shaped stem.