spindling
long or tall and slender, often disproportionately so.
growing into a long, slender stalk or stem, often too slender or weak to remain upright.
a spindling person or thing.
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How to use spindling in a sentence
But how can they catch fishes that size on a little bit of a spindling rod and a line so fine you can hardly see it?
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries | Francis Rolt-WheelerHe had round, stooping shoulders, and long, spindling limbs.
They looked straight at a few spindling tomato plants set too near the tree and stunted by its shade.
A Girl Of The Limberlost | Gene Stratton PorterOur regular steward was a spindling little critter with curls and eye-glasses who answered to the hail of "Percy."
Cape Cod Stories | Joseph C. LincolnThe wiry and spindling growth of grass and grain crops may indicate too much water.
The First Book of Farming | Charles L. Goodrich
British Dictionary definitions for spindling
/ (ˈspɪndlɪŋ) /
long and slender, esp disproportionately so
(of stalks, shoots, etc) becoming long and slender
a spindling person or thing
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