spindle

Etymology
From, , , from , , alteration of earlier , , , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬 "spindle"; < Middle Dutch ,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun



 * 1)   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.
 * 2)  A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
 * the spindle of a vane
 * 1)  A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
 * 2)  Certain of the species of the genus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
 * 3)  An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
 * 4)  The fusee of a watch.
 * 5)  Any long and slender stalk resembling a spindle from.
 * 6)  A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
 * 7)  A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
 * 8) Any marine univalve shell of the genus ; a.
 * 9) Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
 * 10)  A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
 * 11)  a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
 * 12)  A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
 * 13) A muscle spindle.
 * 14) A sleep spindle.
 * 1) Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
 * 2)  A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
 * 3)  a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
 * 4)  A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
 * 5) A muscle spindle.
 * 6) A sleep spindle.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مِغْزَل
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: fus
 * Asturian: fusu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: орсоҡ
 * Belarusian: верацяно́
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kalinyasan
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: fois
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ŝpinilo
 * Estonian: kedervars
 * Finnish:, kehräin
 * French:
 * Friulian: fûs
 * Galician: fuso
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Chrëbs
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἄτρακτος, νῆτρον, κλωστήρ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: snælda
 * Ingrian: värttänä
 * Irish: fearsaid, eiteán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ұршық
 * Khmer: កដិពន្ធ,
 * Korean: 방추, 물레가락
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ໄນຫລາ
 * Latin: fūsus
 * Latvian: vārpsta
 * Lithuanian: verpstukas
 * Macedonian: вретено
 * Maori: tokohuri
 * Navajo: bee adizí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: врѣтено
 * Old East Slavic: веретено
 * Old English: spinel/spindel, inspinn
 * Old Norse: snælda
 * Ottoman Turkish: ایك
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: puchka
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вретѐно
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: fusu
 * Slovak: vreteno
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wrjeśeno
 * Upper Sorbian: wrjećeno
 * Southern Altai: ийик
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, ikiran, suliran
 * Tajik: дук
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ik
 * Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎍𐎋
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: تکلا
 * Uyghur: يىك
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: fuxo, fus
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: gwerthyd


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: fearsaid
 * Macedonian: осовина, стожер
 * Maori: turuki, tokohuri
 * Norman: êsseu
 * Ottoman Turkish: ایك
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: шпиндель


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish: mol, fearsaid
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: шпиндель


 * Albanian:, ,
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: брызглі́на
 * Bulgarian: чашкодрян
 * Catalan: boneter, evònim
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὐώνυμος
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: feoras, crann feorais
 * Korean: 화살나무
 * Macedonian: курика
 * Old English: wananbēam
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̀рика
 * Latin:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: trdolẹ̑ska
 * Turkish: papaz külahı
 * Ukrainian:


 * Dutch: papierprikker,
 * Finnish:, paperipiikki


 * Dutch:


 * Dutch: omwentelingslichaam


 * Dutch:
 * Spanish: tarrina

Verb

 * 1)  To make into a long tapered shape.
 * 2)  To take on a long tapered shape.
 * 3)  To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
 * Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

Translations

 * Dutch:


 * Dutch: