SPINDLE

noun the fusee of a watch.

2. spindle ·noun any marine gastropod of the genus fusus.

3. spindle ·noun a long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

4. spindle ·noun a shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

5. spindle ·noun the vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

6. spindle ·noun any marine univalve shell of the genus rostellaria;

— called also spindle stromb.

7. spindle ·noun a slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

8. spindle ·noun a yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

9. spindle ·noun a solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

10. spindle ·vi to shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

11. spindle ·noun 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.

12. spindle ·noun 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.