spindle

spindle is a 7-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
2. noun. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
3. noun. The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
4. noun. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
5. noun. A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
6. noun. The fusee of a watch.
7. noun. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
8. noun. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
9. noun. A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
10. noun. Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
11. noun. Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
12. intransitive verb. To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
13. noun. any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object

    "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"

    Synonyms: spike

14. noun. a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
15. noun. any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

    Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril

16. noun. a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
17. noun. (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle

    "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"

Synonyms

spike, arbor, mandrel, mandril

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spindle:

splined

Common word forms

spindled, spindler, spindles, spindling, spindleful

Words from these letters

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