The fusee of a watch.
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.
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 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.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
The penis.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.