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spindle

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  A  slender  rod  or  pin  on  which  anything  turns;  an  axis;  as 
  the  spindle  of  a  vane.  Specifically: 
  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 
  b  (Mach.)  The  vertical  rod  on  which  the  runner  of  a 
  grinding  mill  turns. 
  c  (Founding)  A  shaft  or  pipe  on  which  a  core  of  sand  is 
  formed. 
 
  3.  The  fusee  of  a  watch. 
 
  4.  A  long  and  slender  stalk  resembling  a  spindle. 
 
  5.  A  yarn  measure  containing,  in  cotton  yarn,  15,120  yards; 
  in  linen  yarn,  14,400  yards. 
 
  6.  (Geom.)  A  solid  generated  by  the  revolution  of  a  curved 
  line  about  its  base  or  double  ordinate  or  chord. 
 
  7.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  Any  marine  univalve  shell  of  the  genus  {Rostellaria}; 
  --  called  also  {spindle  stromb}. 
  b  Any  marine  gastropod  of  the  genus  {Fusus}. 
 
  {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}.  (Zo["o]l.)  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  {E.  Europ[ae]us}  was  used  for 
  spindles  and  skewers.  See  {Prickwood}. 
 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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  shafts  that  rotate  or  serve  as  axes  for 
  larger  rotating  parts  [syn:  {mandrel},  {mandril},  {arbor}] 
  3:  a  stick  or  pin  used  to  twist  the  yarn  in  spinning




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