spindle

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Etymology

Old English spinel

Pronunciation

• IPA: spɪndəl
• Rhymes: -ɪndəl

Noun

spindle (plural spindles)

1. (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural 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.
3. A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
4. A worldwide tree of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
5. An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

Translations

rod for winding thread

Armenian: իլիկ (hy) (ilik), իլ (hy) (il) Finnish: värttinä (fi) French: fuseau (fr) German: Spindel (de) f. Greek: αδράχτι (el) (adráchti) n. Hungarian: orsó (hu) Irish: fearsaid (ga) f. Italian: fuso (it)

Latin: fusus (la) Macedonian: вретено (mk) (vréteno) n. Romanian: fus (ro) Russian: веретено (ru) (veretenó) n. Serbian: vreteno n. Slovak: vreteno n. Spanish: huso (es)

rod which turns, or on which something turns round

Finnish: akseli (fi), tappi (fi) French: essieu (fr) m. German: Spindel (de) f.

Hebrew: סרן (he) (seren) Macedonian: осовина (mk) (osóvina) f., стожер (mk) (stóžer) m. Russian: шпиндель (ru) (špíndel’) m., ось (ru) (os’) f.

tree of the genus Euonymus

Finnish: sorvarinpensas (fi) German: Spindelstrauch (de) m.

Irish: feoras (ga) m., crann feorais (ga) m.

upright spike for holding papers

Finnish: piikki (fi), paperipiikki (fi)

Verb

spindle (third-person singular simple present spindles, present participle spindling, simple past and past participle spindled)

1. To make into a long tapered shape.
2. To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

   Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

Anagrams

• splined