A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
To depend on something.
The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
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.