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Spindle :: Spindle (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..

Spindling :: Spindled (imp. & p. p.) of Spindl.

Spindle-shaped :: Spindleshanks (n.) A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt..

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

Mandrel :: Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

Spindle :: Spindle (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..

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

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

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The fusee of a watch.

Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

Cop :: Cop (n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc..

Journal :: "Journal (a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box..

Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle..

Nuclear :: Nuclear (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc..

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Windle :: Windle (n.) A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.

Whorl :: Whorl (n. & v.) The fly of a spindle.

Axletree :: Axletree (n.) A spindle or axle of a wheel.

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

Live :: Live (a.) Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe..

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