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.
A slender rod or pin on which anything
turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
The fusee of a watch.
A long and slender stalk resembling a
spindle.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn,
15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
A solid generated by the
revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or
chord.
Any
marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also
spindle stromb.
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