spindle

• any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
• any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
• (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division
• a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe
• a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
• The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound
• A slender rod or pin on which anything turns
• 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
• The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns
• A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed
• The fusee of a watch
• A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle
• A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 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
• Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus
• To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body

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