Spindle

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.

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

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.

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

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

The fusee of a watch.

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

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

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

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

Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

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

(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"