Spindle vs. Axle

Spindlenoun

(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.

Spindlenoun

A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

Spindlenoun

A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

Spindlenoun

The fusee of a watch.

Spindlenoun

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

Spindlenoun

(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly

Spindleverb

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.

Spindleverb

(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.

Spindleverb

(transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

Spindlenoun

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.

Spindlenoun

A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

Spindlenoun

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.

Spindlenoun

The fusee of a watch.

Spindlenoun

The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

Spindlenoun

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

Spindlenoun

A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

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

Spindlenoun

Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; - called also spindle stromb.

Spindleverb

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

Spindlenoun

(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle;

Spindlenoun

any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Spindlenoun

a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

Spindlenoun

a slender rounded rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning to twist and wind thread from a mass of wool or flax held on a distaff.

Spindlenoun

a pin or rod used on a spinning wheel to twist and wind the thread.

Spindlenoun

a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.

Spindlenoun

a measure of length for yarn, equal to 15,120 yards (13,826 metres) for cotton or 14,400 yards (13,167 metres) for linen.

Spindlenoun

a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.

Spindlenoun

a pointed metal rod on a base, used for filing paper items.

Spindlenoun

a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.

Spindlenoun

the vertical rod at the centre of a record turntable which keeps the record in place during play.

Spindlenoun

a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides. At metaphase the chromosomes become attached to it by their centromeres before being pulled towards its ends.

Spindlenoun

a Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds. Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles.

Axlenoun

(obsolete) Shoulder.

Axlenoun

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Axlenoun

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Axlenoun

An axis; as, the Sun’s axle.

Axlenoun

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Axlenoun

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Axlenoun

An axis; as, the sun's axle.

Axlenoun

a shaft on which a wheel rotates

Axle

An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle.