Clues for the word "SPINDLE"
We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 29 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 27, 2026.
Definition of spindle
- n. - The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
- n. - A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
- n. - The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
- n. - The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
- n. - A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
- n. - The fusee of a watch.
- n. - A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- n. - A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- n. - A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- n. - Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
- n. - Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
- v. i. - To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
Referring Clues
- Turning point
- Record holder
- Sales slip holder
- Rotating shaft, e.g.
- Partner of fold and mutilate
- Platter holder
- Hard-disk part
- Turntable shaft
- Arbor
- Revolving rod
- Wooden rod
- Rotating shaft
- Rod lends 1p to forge
- Those girls having dropped church, coming to bad end, left for centre of revolution
- Device for winding thread
- Pin bearing a bobbin
- Rod's backbone broken by dinner ladies initially
- Stick or pin used to twist yarn in spinning
- Fibre-spinning rod
- Stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
- Slender rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning wool
- Pen lids recycled to make pin for twisting yarn
- Sleeping Beauty piercer
- Rod used to make yarn
- Element in the tale of Sleeping Beauty
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 27, 2026
- Your Life Choices - September 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - July 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - February 12, 2024
- LA Times - October 07, 2023
- Daily Quick - July 08, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - July 07, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 06, 2023
- New York Times - February 09, 2023
- Family Time - August 01, 2022
- Daily Quick - July 08, 2017
- Family Time - May 01, 2017
- Guardian Quick - July 27, 2015
- Guardian Quick - October 31, 2013
- Universal - February 18, 2012
- Netword - March 26, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - September 15, 2010
- Guardian Speedy - August 22, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - May 19, 2010
- Guardian Quick - April 11, 2008
- Washington Post - April 11, 2007
- Washington Post - February 14, 2007
- Guardian Quick - February 11, 2006
- Washington Post - January 10, 2005
- Washington Post - February 14, 2001
- Guardian Quiptic - November 20, 2000
- New York Times - September 23, 2000
- New York Times - May 21, 2000
- New York Times - February 06, 1999