noun
- a rod or pin used for spinning thread or yarn
- a rod or axle that rotates or on which something rotates
- a slender rod-shaped part or structure
verb
- to grow into a long thin shape
- to pierce or impale on a spindle
Examples
- She wound the thread around the wooden spindle.
- The car’s wheel spindle was damaged in the accident.
- The plant began to spindle as it reached for sunlight.
- He spindled the receipt on the metal spike.
- The old spinning wheel had a beautifully carved spindle.
- The machine’s spindle rotates at high speed.
- Without proper support, the seedlings will spindle and become weak.