Thesaurus: spindle

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1. 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.
2. n. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
3. 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.
4. n. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
5. n. A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
6. n. The fusee of a watch.
7. n. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
8. n. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
9. n. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
10. n. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
11. n. Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
12. v. i. To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.