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adjective
1.
long or tall and slender, often disproportionately so.
2.
growing into a long, slender stalk or stem, often too slender or weak to remain upright.
noun
3.
a spindling person or thing.
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Spindling
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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noun
1.
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.
2.
the rod on a spinning wheel by which the thread is twisted and on which it is wound.
3.
one of the rods of a spinning machine that bear the bobbins on which the spun thread is wound.
4.
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.
5.
EXPANDa vertical shaft that serves to center a phonograph record on a turntable.
6.
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.
7.
a small axis, arbor, or mandrel.
8.
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.
9.
a measure of yarn, containing, for cotton, 15,120 yards (13,825 meters), and for linen, 14,400 yards (13,267 meters).
10.
a hydrometer.
11.
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.
12.
a short, turned or circular ornament, as in a baluster or stair rail.
14.
Eastern New England. a tassel on an ear of corn.
15.
COLLAPSEChiefly New Jersey and Delaware Valley. dragonfly.
adjective
verb (used with object)
17.
to give the form of a spindle to.
18.
to provide or equip with a spindle or spindles.
19.
to impale (a card or paper) on a spindle, as for sorting purposes.
verb (used without object)
20.
to shoot up, or grow, into a long, slender stalk or stem, as a plant.
21.
to grow tall and slender, often disproportionately so.
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