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Spindle :: Spinate (a.) Bearing a spine; spiniform.

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

Spindle :: 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 :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

Spindle :: Spindling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spindl.

Spindle-legged :: Spindle (v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender..

Spindle-shanked :: Spindlelegs (n.) A spindleshanks.

Spindle-shaped :: Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt..

Spindle-shaped :: Spindle-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a spindle.

Spindled :: Spindle (n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

Spindlelegs :: Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs..

Spindleshanks :: Spindle-shanked (a.) Having long, slender legs..

Spindletail :: Spindle-shaped (a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots..

Spindleworm :: Spindletail (n.) The pintail duck.

Spindling :: Spindled (imp. & p. p.) of Spindl.

Spindling :: Spindleworm (n.) The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment..