Crossword-Solution: SPINDLE
Dictionary
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| Spindle | 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. |
| Spindle | n. | A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane. |
| Spindle | 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. |
| Spindle | n. | The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
| Spindle | n. | A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
| Spindle | n. | The fusee of a watch. |
| Spindle | n. | A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
| Spindle | n. | A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards. |
| Spindle | n. | A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
| Spindle | n. | Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb. |
| Spindle | n. | Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
| Spindle | v. i. | To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPINDLE | anagram | SPELDIN, SPLINED |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SPINDLE (5)
Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings and stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to `walk' across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time.
His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
Hither she had been led by two of her disguised ravishers, and on being thrust into the little cell, she found herself in the presence of an old sibyl, who kept murmuring to herself a Saxon rhyme, as if to beat time to the revolving dance which her spindle was performing upon the floor.
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.
For some time past, vessels had been met by “an enormous thing,” a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
Quotes with SPINDLE (3)
One by one, they guessed aloud about what Lotto had meant by this sculpture: nautilus, fiddlehead, galaxy. Thread running off its spindle. Forces of nature, perfect in beauty, perfectly ephemeral, they guessed. He was too shy to say time. He’d woken with a dry tongue and the urge to make the abstract concrete, to build his new understanding: that this was the way that time was, a spiral. He loved the uselessness of all the effort, the ephemerality of the work. The ocean encro…
Fate is a woman, I said to them. In fact, she is three women. Young, like us, so that they will have the courage to be cruel, having no weight of memory to teach temperance. Young, but so old, older than any stone. Their hair is silver, but full and long. Their eyes are black. But when they are at their work they become dogs, wolves, for they are hounds of death, and also hounds of joy. They take the strands of life in their jaws, and sometimes they are careful with their jag…
Envy said, “Girl, I remember well, ye, who I flung from Hell, and not a day has passed, I haven’t missedthe loss of your soul that I mourned, I’ve been bereft and forlorn, for the sweet taste of your flesh I’ve yet to kiss. But no worries — bygones, that’s the past — long gone, I don’t hold a grudge, no, in no way. And though your family they did swindlemy joy of flaying ye on a spindle, I begrudge ye not a little, so let’s play. So, merely toss your token in my well, and all…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 22 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).