spindle : Idioms & Phrases

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common spindle tree

  • noun small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit
    Euonymus europaeus.
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Dead spindle

  • (Mach.), a spindle in a machine tool that does not revolve; the spindle of the tailstock of a lathe.
Webster 1913

Live spindle

  • (Mach.), the revolving spindle of a machine tool; the spindle of the headstock of a turning lathe.
Webster 1913

Parabolic spindle

  • the solid generated by revolving the portion of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis of the curve, about that line as an axis.
Webster 1913

spindle horn

  • noun cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope; characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat
    Pseudoryx nghetinhensis; forest goat.
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Spindle shell

  • . (Zoöl.) See Spindle, 7. above.
Webster 1913

Spindle side

  • the female side in descent; in the female line; opposed to spear side. Ld. Lytton. R. "King Lycaon, grandson, by the spindle side, of Oceanus." Lowell.
Webster 1913

Spindle tree

  • noun any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries
    spindleberry tree; spindleberry.
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  • (Bot.), any shrub or tree of the genus Eunymus. The wood of E. Europæus was used for spindles and skewers. See Prickwood.
Webster 1913

spindle-legged

  • adjective satellite having long slender legs
    spindle-legged.
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Spin"dle-legged` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having long, slender legs.
Webster 1913

spindle-shanked

  • adjective satellite having long slender legs
    spindle-legged.
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Spin"dle-shanked` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having long, slender legs. Addison.
Webster 1913

spindle-shaped

  • adjective satellite tapering at each end
    fusiform; cigar-shaped.
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Spin"dle-shaped` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having the shape of a spindle.
  2. (Bot.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
Webster 1913

spindle-tree family

  • noun trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits
    Celastraceae; staff-tree family; family Celastraceae.
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Tail spindle

  • the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; called also dead spindle.
Webster 1913

winged spindle tree

  • noun bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings; brilliant red in autumn; northeastern Asia to central China
    Euonymous alatus.
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