(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.
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as,
the spindle of a vane.
(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.
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill
turns.
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
(n.) The fusee of a watch.
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards;
in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about
its base or double ordinate or chord.
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; --
called also spindle stromb.
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to
become disproportionately tall and slender.
