Usually means: Rods that support and rotate.
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  1. spindles: Merriam-Webster
  2. spindles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spindles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Spindles, spindles: Wordnik
  5. spindles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. spindles: Wiktionary
  7. spindles: Dictionary.com
  8. spindles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spindles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spindles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. spindles: Medical dictionary

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  1. spindles: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Spindle)

noun:  (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
noun:  A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
noun:  A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
noun:  Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
noun:  An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
noun:  The fusee of a watch.
noun:  Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from Euonymus.
noun:  A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
noun:  (geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
noun:  Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
noun:  Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
noun:  (biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
noun:  (coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
noun:  (computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
noun:  A muscle spindle.
noun:  A sleep spindle.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.
verb:  (intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.
verb:  (transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
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