Definitions
any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
Word origin
From Middle English spyndel, spindle, spyndylle, from Old English spindle, spindel, alteration of earlier spinel, spinil, spinl (“spindle”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinnilu (“spindle”), equivalent to spin + -le. Cognate with Scots spindil, spinnell (“spindle”), Dutch spindel ("spindle"; < Middle Dutch spille, spinle), German Spindel (“spindle”), Danish spindel (“spindle”), Swedish spindel (“spindle”).
Used in a sentence
“Anna Pavlovna’s soirée was now in full swing. On all sides the spindles were humming away non-stop.”
“the spindle of a vane”
“A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Rotating rod”7 letters
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