Word Finder - spindle

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(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.

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A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

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the spindle of a vane

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A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

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Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

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An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

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The fusee of a watch.

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A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

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A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

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A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

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Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.

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Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.

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A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

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(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.

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To make into a long tapered shape.

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To take on a long tapered shape.

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To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

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Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.

These are spindle shaped and have long processes.

Bowl turning will require a larger lathe than spindle turning.

Never leave the windlass (lock key) on the spindle.

It consists of a long screw spindle, coupled by suitable gearing with the cable drum, and thus rotating at the speed of the outgoing cable; on this screw works a nut which forms the centre of a thin 'circular disk, the edge of which is pressed against the surface of a right circular cone, the line of contact, as the nut moves along the screw, being parallel to the axis of the latter.

The winged spindle euonymus alatus Rosa roxburghii, when mature, peel and flake in cinnamon tinted hues.

Spindle whorl A spindle whorl made from the top of a cow's leg bone.

The archeologists found spindle whorls which are used to make the end of a long stick, or spindle, heavier.

A layer of delicate filamentous cytoplasmkinoplasmmay collect around the nucleus, or at its poles, out of which the spindle is formed.

Her power is irresistible, even greater than that of the gods; to her was due the strife (battles with Titans, Giants) that raged amongst them of old, before the rule of love began; the world revolves round the spindle, which she holds in her lap. According to the Egyptian theory, she is one of the four deities present at the birth of every human being, her companions being the Daemon (guardian spirit), Tyche (Fortune) and Eros.

Carriage feed rates vary through fifty changes from 0.0005 " to 0.016 " per revolution of the headstock spindle.

There is just this bright orange spindle out in front of the barrels and a great ripping noise like tearing a sheet.

The maximum distance from the spindle nose to the table was 13.5 .

The largest of the 4-step spindle pulleys was 6.5 inches in diameter and took a 1 3/8 -wide belt.

A two-speed, three-phase motor drove the four speed gearbox to give a total of 8 spindle speeds from 170 to 2160 rpm.

Urethane bushes should be fitted and the original lever arm shock should be checked for wear in the spindle.

January 03 2004 Keith Lines cleans out a thread hole before refitting the valve spindle covers.

Spindle Whorl A spindle whorl made from the top of a cow 's leg bone.

It can be identified by a rounded, spindle back which is bent into a hoop.

Made up of the Bakugan Helios, Scraper, Klawgor, Foxbat, Fencer, Leefram and Spindle, players can use the Maxus Helios in battle as a formidable combined force, or play with the individual Bakugan.

Depending on the model, there will either be three separate spindle controls or one set of controls for the single-spindle model.

The Milkshake Machine from Hamilton Beach comes shipped with a solid agitator installed on each spindle.

Aurora, star of Disney's Sleeping Beauty, was betrothed at birth to Prince Phillip but grows up in a secluded cottage after being cursed to die by the prick of a spinning wheel's spindle before her sixteenth birthday.

E, Chromosomes ox the spindle.

When mitosis is about to take place, they separate from one another and pass to the poles of the nucleus, forming the achromatic spindle.

In many pathological cells undergoing indirect segmentation, centrosomes appear to be absent, or at any rate do not manifest themselves at the poles of the achromatic spindle.

The surface and solid traced by the revolution of the lesser segment of a circle is termed a "spindle."

Two or three slubbing rovings are put up behind the machine opposite each spindle; each end is guided separately into back rollers and thence between smaller rollers, known as carrier rollers, to the front rollers.

The product is wound on to the bobbin by means of flyer and spindle, and is known as dandied or fine roving, and is then ready for the spinning frame.

The exigencies of competition prompted the discovery that if yarn were sold by weight fresh from the spindle its comparative dryness made such early sale less profitable than if it were allowed to "condition."

The limbs of the U are further twisted together in a looser or tighter coil, the axis of which may be traversed by a "spindle" muscle arising from the posterior end of the body.

He finds no spindle fibres or true chromosomes, and considers the division direct, not indirect.

The method once exclusively used consists in mixing the raw materials with a large quantity of water in a wash mill, a machine having radial horizontal arms driven from a central vertical spindle and carrying harrows which stir up and intermix any soft material placed in the pit in which the apparatus revolves.

Harriet Hanson wrote Early Factory Labor in New England (1883) and Loom and Spindle (1898), an important contribution to the industrial and social history of Lowell.

In mechanism it is usually the central line either of a rotating shaft or axle having journals, gudgeons, or pivots turning in fixed bearings, or of a fixed spindle or dead centre round which a rotating bush turns; but it may sometimes be entirely beyond the limits of the turning body.

Revolving pendulums are usually constructed with pairs of rods y b and bobs, as OB, Ob, hung at opposite sides of the spindle, that the centrifugal forces exerted at the point 0 may balance A each other.

Blaeu's improvement consisted of putting the spindle of the screw through a square block which was guided in the wooden frame, and from this block the platen was suspended by wires or cords.

The chief points of the iron press consisted of an improved application of the power to the spindle.

The upper part of the staple, called the nut, answered the same purpose as the head in the older kind of wooden press, and was in fact a box with a female screw in which the screw of the spindle worked.

The lower portion of the neck was occupied by a piston and cup, in and on which the toe of the spindle worked.

The extreme upper end of the arbor, which was hexagonal, received a head, which was really a lever of some length; this head was connected by a coupling-bar to a similar lever or head, into which the upper end of the spindle was inserted.

The bar by which the power was applied by the pressman was fixed into the arbor, and not into the spindle, so that the lever was the whole width of the press, instead of half, as in Blaeu's wooden press, and it was better placed for the application of the worker's strength.

There was also another lever to the arbor head in addition to that of the spindle head; and lastly, the screw itself was so enlarged that it greatly increased the power.

The platen was screwed on to the under surface of the spindle; the table or bed had slides underneath which moved in, and not on, ribs as in the older form of press, and was run in and out by means of strips of webbing fastened to each end and passed round a drum or wheel.

In this operation there is no doubling of the slivers, but each sliver passes separately through the machine, from the can to the spindle, is drawn out to about eight times its length, and receives a small amount of twist to strengthen it, in order that it may be successfully wound upon the roving bobbin by the flyer.

Atropos is most frequently represented with scales, a sun-dial or a cutting instrument, the "abhorred shears," with which she slits the thin-spun thread of life that has been placed on the spindle by Clotho and drawn off by Lachesis.

Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect, determined the length of the arc and its centre of gravity, and Pierre Fermat deduced the surface of the spindle generated by its revolution.

It remains uncertain whether a small Madonna with distaff and spindle, which the correspondent of Isabella Gonzaga reports Leonardo as having begun for one Robertet, a favourite of the king of France, was ever finished.

A common arrangement for driving a lathe spindle, in either direction at several definite speeds, is to provide a countershaft on which are mounted two fixed pulleys and two loose pulleys to accommodate two driving belts from the main shaft, one of which is open and the other crossed.

The dimensions of the pulleys are generally so arranged that the return motion of the lathe spindle is faster than the forward motion.

In his sanctuary on the Quirinal, the foundation of which was celebrated on the 5th of June, there were shown the distaff and spindle of Tanaquil, the wife of Tarquinius Priscus, and in the, eyes of Roman matrons the embodiment of all wifely virtues.