The main axis of a feather.
A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
A beam or ray of light.
Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
The chamber of a blast furnace.
A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
The main cylindrical part of the penis.
Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
To equip with a shaft.
To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
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.