English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of spindle

spindle

/noun/ तकला; धुरा; दुर्बल पदार्थ; टेकुई; धुरी; तकली; तकुआ; तंतु;

Synonym axle; axis; spendle; fiber;

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English Dictionary:

1. Spindle

[n.]

- 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.
- A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
- 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.
- The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
- A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
- The fusee of a watch.
- A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
- Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.

2. Spindle

[v. i.]

- To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.