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Spindle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
(2):
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
(3):
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
(4):
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
(5):
(n.) The fusee of a watch.
(6):
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(7):
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(8):
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
(9):
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; - called also spindle stromb.
(10):
(n.) 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.
(11):
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
(12):
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Spindle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/spindle.html. 1828.
