Spindle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPINDLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to impale on a slender rod
• To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
• form into a spindle or equip with spindles
NOUN:
• a slender rounded rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning to twist and wind thread from a mass of wool or flax held on a distaff.
• a pin or rod used on a spinning wheel to twist and wind the thread.
• a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.
• a measure of length for yarn, equal to 15,120 yards (13,826 metres) for cotton or 14,400 yards (13,167 metres) for linen.
• a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.
• a pointed metal rod on a base, used for filing paper items.
• a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.
• the vertical rod at the centre of a record turntable which keeps the record in place during play.
• a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides. At metaphase the chromosomes become attached to it by their centromeres before being pulled towards its ends.
• a Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds. Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles.
• rotating rod that acts as an axle
• 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 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; 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.
• Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
• (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle
• a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
• any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
• a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
• any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object

Words related to SPINDLE

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Words that contain SPINDLE

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How to use SPINDLE in a sentence

• The other ceased swinging his spindle legs and sat like a little brown image upon the edge of his box.
• It was that of a man, or rather monster, with a huge chest, but narrow loins and oddly spindle legs, and with a white, dead face malignant of expression.
• A spindle ran from the axle of the wheel across the well, and on the spindle was a drum to take the rope.
• Her Maid indeed told me one Day, that her Mistress had said she never saw a Gentleman with such a Spindle Pair of Legs as Mr.
• It is a valid answer, that the only tools habitually needed by woman have been the needle, the spindle, and the basket, and tradition reports that she herself invented all three.
• When the princess was sixteen years old she saw an old woman spinning and took the spindle from her to try this strange new work.
• The spindle imp and other tales of Maya myth and folklore.
• In Germany extensive use is made of a cop-winding machine in which the wooden spindle consists of a cone moved by a screw, and the position of which is horizontal.
• The spindle fibres disappear, and the astral fibres may either disappear or remain visible.
• Then she threw the spindle into the well, and jumped in herself.
• Then the Princess pointed to the spindle, and made the old woman understand that she wanted to try if she could work it.
• Then Yim dropped his spindle, covered the coal with a bit of tinder previously made ready, and blew it into a flame, which he deftly transferred to the wick of his lamp.
• They were flimsy shelters, most of them poorly built of light wood, with spindle porch-posts horribly mutilated by the turning-lathe.
• It holds a vertical spindle with the knife-edge wheel at the bottom.
• The use of this spindle being, to draw in and out of the grooves the fifteen bee-frames when required.
• The spindle, instead of being solid as represented, may be made hollow.
• The spindle should be of steel and long enough to reach through the bearing and pulley and have enough end left for the center point.
• The upper one should be tapped with a machine tap for the spindle which is threaded to fit it.
• Now, said she, carve me out of this tree as much wood as will make me a spindle.
• The position of the extended arm is then altered, and the spindle again set in motion in order to wind up the new thread on the shaft.
• This cylinder, technically called the barrel, runs upon a spindle, which turns a brass pick on each side of a frame.
• He entered, and saw a beautiful maiden who sat spinning gold thread on a spindle of gold.
• One day, while she was washing the blood from her hands, the spindle fell into the spring and sank to the bottom.
• From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn.
• The spindle is of course in fixed bearings in the frame.

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