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# spindle

«spindle» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thin, pointed stick used in hand spinning to twist wool…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spindle, spindles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thin, pointed stick used in hand spinning to twist wool or other fibres into thread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#m1)

2) A rod or pin in a machine that turns round, or around which something turns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#m2)

3) (adjective form spindly) Long and thin, like spindly legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history, people spun yarn with a spindle before spinning wheels and mills. In the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, the princess pricks her finger on a spindle and falls asleep for a hundred years. In science and DT, a spindle is a turning part of a machine. A «spindle tree» is a hedgerow tree whose wood was used for spindles.

### examples

- The princess pricked her finger on the spindle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x1)
- The woman twisted the wool onto her spindle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x2)
- The spinning wheel has a spindle that turns very fast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x3)
- Spiders have long, spindly legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x4)
- The door handle fell off its spindle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x5)
- Before mills, all thread was made with a spindle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x6)
- This good woman had never heard of the King's proclamation against spindles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/#x7)

### note

Countable. Adjective spindly (long and thin, weak-looking).

### In the corpora

- [She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.916/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spindle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spindle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.