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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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