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