spindle
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1. spindle - Noun
2. spindle - Verb
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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.
A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
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.
The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
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Although the hand tool has a few advantages over the power tool and retains favour with some workers, it has been mostly replaced by the modern spindle router, which was designed for the same work.
All disk spindle rotation is synchronized and data is striped such that each sequential bit is on a different drive.
"A so-called 'Homeric' drinking-cup shows pretty undisguisedly Sisyphos in the bed-chamber of his host's daughter, the arch-rogue sitting on the bed and the girl with her spindle."
Astral microtubules anchor the spindle poles to the cell membrane.
A related tool, called a spindle moulder (UK) or shaper (North America), is used to hold larger cutter heads and can be used for deeper or larger-diameter cuts.
Because of the increased mass, they usually employed ball bearings or roller bearings in the spindle to reduce friction and noise.