Definitions for the word, spindle

(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.

(n.) The fusee of a watch.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.


143 words found in the Scrabble word, spindle



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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