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English

Etymology

spinel

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪndəl|-ɪndəl

Noun

(spinning) a distaff, the rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres, especially wool.
a rod which turns, or on which something turns.
a worldwide tree of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
an upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

Translations

Finnish: värttinä

French: fuseau
Slovak vreteno

Finnish: tappi
Hebrew:

Verb

To make into a long tapered shape.
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
:Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spindle \Spin"dle\, n. [AS. spinal, fr. spinnan to spin; akin to
D. spil, G. spille, spindel, OHG. spinnala. [root]170. See
Spin.]
1. 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.
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2. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as,
the spindle of a vane. Specifically:
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(a) (Mach.) 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.
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(b) (Mach.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a
grinding mill turns.
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(c) (Founding) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is
formed.
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3. The fusee of a watch.
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4. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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5. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards;
in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
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6. (Geom.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved
line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
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7. (Zool.)
(a) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria;
-- called also spindle stromb.
(b) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
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Dead spindle (Mach.), a spindle in a machine tool that does
not revolve; the spindle of the tailstock of a lathe.

Live spindle (Mach.), the revolving spindle of a machine
tool; the spindle of the headstock of a turning lathe.

Spindle shell. (Zool.) See Spindle, 7. above.

Spindle side, the female side in descent; in the female
line; opposed to spear side. --Ld. Lytton. [R.] "King
Lycaon, grandson, by the spindle side, of Oceanus."
--Lowell.

Spindle tree (Bot.), any shrub or tree of the genus
Eunymus. The wood of Eunymus Europaeus was used for
spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Spindle \Spin"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spindled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Spindling.]
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to
become disproportionately tall and slender.
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It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.
--Lowell.
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WordNet spindle
n 1: (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the
fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in
the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in
mitosis and meiosis"
2: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger
rotating parts [syn: mandrel, mandril, arbor]
3: a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

Moby Dictionary
arbor , axis , axle , axle bar , axle shaft , axle spindle , axle-tree ,
distaff , fulcrum , gimbal , gudgeon , hinge , hingle , hub , mandrel ,
nave , oarlock , pin , pintle , pivot , pole , radiant , rowlock , swivel ,
trunnion