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1.noun(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
2.nounA rod which turns, or on which something turns."the spindle of a vane"
3.nounA rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
4.nounCertain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
5.nounAn upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
6.nounThe fusee of a watch.
7.nounA long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
8.nounA yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
9.nounA solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
10.nounAny marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
11.nounAny marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
12.nounA cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
13.noun(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
14.verbTo make into a long tapered shape.
15.verbTo take on a long tapered shape.
16.verbTo impale on a device for holding paper documents."Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document."