Spindle
['spɪnd(ə)l] or ['spɪndl]
Definition
(noun.) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning.
(noun.) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts.
(noun.) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc..
(noun.) (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'.
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Definition
(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.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
(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.
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
(n.) The fusee of a watch.
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. (Mech.) Axis, shaft, arbor.
Typist: Trevor
Definition
n. the pin from which the thread is twisted: a pin on which anything turns: the fusee of a watch: anything very slender.—v.i. to grow long and slender.—adjs. Spin′dle-legged -shanked having long slender legs like spindles.—ns.pl. Spin′dle-legs -shanks long slim legs—hence an over-long and slender person.—adj. Spin′dle-shaped shaped like a spindle: thickest in the middle and tapering to both ends.—ns. Spin′dle-shell a spindle-shaped shell; Spin′dle-tree a shrub whose hard-grained wood was formerly used for making musical instruments and for spindles and is now for skewers &c.; Spin′dling a person or thing too long and slender: a slender shoot.—adj. long and slender.—adj. Spin′dly disproportionally long and slender.
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Examples
- From these ends is extended the spindle of Necessity, on which all the revolutions turn. Plato. The Republic.
- But, so it has been suggested, there was one man who stopped short when he lost his spindle, for a red-hot idea shot suddenly through his brain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Prior to 1878 the speed of the average spindle was limited to 5,000 revolutions a minute. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Suppose that while one were bearing on pretty hard with a well-tightened string, in order to bring fire quickly, the point of the spindle should slip from its block. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The thread passes through the hoop as it is wound upon the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Birkenhead Yielding Spinning Spindle Bearing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Considering the great speed of the modern spindle and the fact that a single workman attends a thousand or more of them, the record of progress in this art becomes impressive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The shaft and hook of this spindle are made of steel, and the whorl is made partly of steel and also partly of other materials. Plato. The Republic.
- This machine had eight or ten spindles driven by cords or belts from the same wheel, and operated by hand or foot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When the proper fineness had been obtained in this way, the cotton, as it passed from the second pair of rollers, was twisted into a firm strong thread by spindles attached to the frame. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In 1805 there were only 4,500 cotton spindles at work in the United States. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The rovings at one end were attached to the spindles and their opposite portions held together and drawn out by a clasp held in the hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Within twenty years after the introduction of Arkwright's machines in the United States there were a hundred mills there with a hundred thousand spindles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When the thread yarn was drawn out sufficiently it was wound upon the spindles by a reverse movement of the wheel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In this the spindles, arranged vertically in the frame, are driven by bands from a central cylinder, and project through apertures in a horizontal bar. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The spindles were mounted on a wheeled carriage that traveled back and forth a considerable distance from the drawing rolls, which were mounted in bearings in a stationary frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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