A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
To form, or be formed, in the shape of a needle.
To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at.
To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
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.
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.