spindles Definition

a round stick with tapered ends used to form and twist the yarn in hand spinning

the long slender pin by which the thread is twisted in a spinning wheel

any of various rods or pins holding a bobbin in a textile machine (such as a spinning frame)

to shoot or grow into a long slender stalk

to grow to stalk or stem rather than to flower or fruit

to impale, thrust, or perforate on the spike of a spindle file

a sensory end organ in a muscle that is sensitive to stretch in the muscle, consists of small striated muscle fibers richly supplied with nerve fibers, and is enclosed in a connective tissue sheath —called also stretch receptor