Meaning

• (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

• A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

  "the spindle of a vane"

• A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

• Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

• An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

• The fusee of a watch.

• A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

• A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

• A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

• Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.

• Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.

• A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

• (coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.

Meaning

• To make into a long tapered shape.

• To take on a long tapered shape.

• To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

  "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document."