A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
A gun.
Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
A type of basic fishing rod.
Pole position.
For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
A penis.
A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
To furnish with poles for support.
To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
To convey on poles.
To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
To strike (the ball) very hard.
To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
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.
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
The fusee of a watch.
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
A sleep spindle.
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
A muscle spindle.
A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
To make into a long tapered shape.
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
To take on a long tapered shape.