A bent piece of an axle or shaft, or an attached arm perpendicular, or nearly so, to the end of a shaft or wheel, used to impart a rotation to a wheel or other mechanical device; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion.
Synonym of methamphetamine.
A twist or turn in speech; word play consisting in a change of the form or meaning of a word.
An amateur in science or other technical subjects who persistently advocates flawed theories
The penis.
A twist or turn of the mind; caprice; whim;
An ill-tempered or nasty person.
The act of converting power into motion, by turning a crankshaft.
a fit of temper or passion.
Full of spirit; brisk; lively; sprightly; overconfident; opinionated.
Liable to capsize because of poorly stowed cargo or insufficient ballast.
Sick; unwell.
Strange, weird, odd.
To turn.
To cause to spin via other means, as though turned by a crank.
To turn by means of a crank.
To act in a cranky manner; to behave unreasonably and irritably, especially through complaining.
To turn a crank.
To be running at a high level of output or effort.
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
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 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 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 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.