2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  It  has  begun  to  spindle  into  overintellectuality. 
  --Lowell. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spindling  \Spin"dling\,  a. 
  Long  and  slender,  or  disproportionately  tall  and  slender;  as 
  a  spindling  tree;  a  spindling  boy. 

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