Spindle Definition

spĭndl
spindled, spindles, spindling
noun
spindles
A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.
American Heritage
A slender rod or pin used in spinning.
Webster's New World
A measure for yarn, equal to 14,400 yards in linen or 15,120 yards in cotton.
Webster's New World
A short turned piece or decorative rod, as a baluster or element in some chair backs.
Webster's New World
Any of various mechanical parts that revolve or serve as axes for larger revolving parts, as in a lock, axle, phonograph turntable, or lathe.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
spindled, spindles, spindling
To form into a spindle.
Webster's New World
To fit or equip with a spindle.
Webster's New World
To grow into a long, slender stalk or stem.
Webster's New World
To grow in a long, slender shape.
Webster's New World

To impale (papers, etc.) on a spindle.

Webster's New World
adjective
Of or like a spindle or spindles.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Spindle

Noun

Singular:
spindle
Plural:
spindles

Origin of Spindle

  • From Middle English spindle, spyndel, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle"), from Proto-Germanic *spinnilō (“spindle"), equivalent to spin +"Ž -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle"), Dutch spil ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle"), Danish spindel (“spindle"), Swedish spindel (“spindle").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spindel alteration of Old English spinel (s)pen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Spindle Sentence Examples

  • These are spindle shaped and have long processes.

  • Bowl turning will require a larger lathe than spindle turning.

  • Never leave the windlass (lock key) on the spindle.

  • It consists of a long screw spindle, coupled by suitable gearing with the cable drum, and thus rotating at the speed of the outgoing cable; on this screw works a nut which forms the centre of a thin 'circular disk, the edge of which is pressed against the surface of a right circular cone, the line of contact, as the nut moves along the screw, being parallel to the axis of the latter.

  • The winged spindle euonymus alatus Rosa roxburghii, when mature, peel and flake in cinnamon tinted hues.

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