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Spindle
n.
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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.
Spindle
n.
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The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Spindle
n.
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A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
Spindle
n.
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The fusee of a watch.
Spindle
n.
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A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle
n.
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A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle
n.
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A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle
n.
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Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Spindle
n.
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Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Spindled
imp. & p. p.
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of Spindle
Spindling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Spindle
v. i.
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To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Spindle-legged
a.
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Having long, slender legs.
Spindlelegs
n.
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A spindleshanks.
Spindle-shanked
a.
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Having long, slender legs.
Spindleshanks
n.
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A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
Spindle-shaped
a.
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Having the shape of a spindle.
Spindle-shaped
a.
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Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
Spindletail
n.
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The pintail duck.
Spindleworm
n.
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The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
Spindling
a.
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Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
Spine
n.
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A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
Spine
n.
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A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
Spine
n.
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One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
Spine
n.
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The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
Spine
n.
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Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.
Spineback
n.
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A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins.
Spinebill
n.
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Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters.
Spined
a.
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Furnished with spines; spiny.
Spine-finned
a.
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Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.