ALL meanings of spindling
spin·dling
S s - adjective spindling spindle side. 1
- noun spindling a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun. 1
- noun spindling the rod on a spinning wheel by which the thread is twisted and on which it is wound. 1
- noun spindling one of the rods of a spinning machine that bear the bobbins on which the spun thread is wound. 1
- noun spindling any rod or pin suggestive of a spindle used in spinning, as one that turns around or on which something turns; an axle, axis, or shaft. 1
- noun spindling a vertical shaft that serves to center a phonograph record on a turntable. 1
- noun spindling either of two shafts or arbors that support the work on a lathe, one (live spindle) on the headstock, rotating with and imparting motion to the work, the other (dead spindle) on the tailstock, motionless. 1
- noun spindling a small axis, arbor, or mandrel. 1
- noun spindling an iron rod or the like, usually with a ball or cage at the top, fixed to a rock, sunken reef, etc., to serve as a guide in navigation. 1
- noun spindling a measure of yarn, containing, for cotton, 15,120 yards (13,825 meters), and for linen, 14,400 yards (13,267 meters). 1
- noun spindling a hydrometer. 1
- noun spindling Cell Biology. a spindle-shaped structure, composed of microtubules, that forms near the cell nucleus during mitosis or meiosis and, as it divides, draws the chromosomes to opposite poles of the cell. 1
- noun spindling a short, turned or circular ornament, as in a baluster or stair rail. 1
- noun spindling spindle file. 1
- noun spindling Eastern New England. a tassel on an ear of corn. 1
- noun spindling Chiefly New Jersey and Delaware Valley. dragonfly. 1
- verb with object spindling to give the form of a spindle to. 1
- verb with object spindling to provide or equip with a spindle or spindles. 1
- verb with object spindling to impale (a card or paper) on a spindle, as for sorting purposes. 1
- verb without object spindling to shoot up, or grow, into a long, slender stalk or stem, as a plant. 1
- verb without object spindling to grow tall and slender, often disproportionately so. 1
- adjective spindling long and slender, esp disproportionately so 0
- adjective spindling (of stalks, shoots, etc) becoming long and slender 0
- noun spindling a spindling person or thing 0
- abbreviation SPINDLING spindly 0