Usually means: Rotating shaft for winding thread.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. spindle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spindle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spindle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spindle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spindle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spindle: Wordnik
  7. spindle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spindle: Wiktionary
  9. spindle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spindle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spindle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spindle: Dictionary.com
  13. spindle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Spindle (automobile), Spindle (computer), Spindle (disambiguation), Spindle (disc packaging), Spindle (furniture), Spindle (hard disk drive), Spindle (sculpture), Spindle (shrub), Spindle (stationery), Spindle (textiles), Spindle (tool), Spindle (vehicle), Spindle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Spindle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. spindle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. spindle: Rhymezone
  18. Spindle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. spindle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. spindle: Free Dictionary
  21. spindle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. spindle: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. spindle: Wordnik

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spindle: Financial dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spindle: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Spindle (shrub), spindle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Spindle: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. spindle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. spindle: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spindle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spindle, spindle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spindle: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spindle: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See spindled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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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