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▪ I. ˈspindling, (vbl.) n.
[f. spindle n. or v.]
1. a. The action of providing with a spindle or spindles. rare—1. b. (See quot. 1611.)
1441–2Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 185 In reparacione molendini.., viz. in spyndillyng et factura unius novi saylyerde, iiis. viiid. 1611Florio, Fusarie, trifles, toyes, spindlings.
2. The formation of a stem, stalk, or shoot, in plants.
1626Bacon Sylva §669 Another ill accident is drouth at the Spindling of the Corn, which with us is rare. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 145 Their Leaves..may be tied in knots, which will prevent their spindling. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Spindling, a term which Gardiners use, to signify the first Appearance or putting forth of Flowers, Stems, or their running up in Length.
3. A spindly plant, animal, etc.
1842Tennyson Amphion xii, Half-conscious of the garden-squirt, The spindlings look unhappy. 1852P. Parley's Ann. 330 Black sheep, or white sheep,..fat tails, or spindlings.
4. The process of recessing and tapering a spar for an aeroplane wing. Also attrib., as spindling jig, spindling machine.
1918Aeronaut. Jrnl. Feb. 40 In the spindling of spars the job should be placed in a jig having stops upon it. 1920F. T. Hill Pract. Aeroplane Constr. v. 108 The base of the spindling jig. Ibid. 110 The only marking out required for spindling is the end of the recess. Ibid. 116 Flanges are grooved on the spindling machine with a jig.
5. Med. The occurrence of fairly regular alternating increases and decreases of amplitude in an electroencephalogram.
1963Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. XV. 766/2 The randomness can account for such characteristics as spindling without involving concepts of beating between alpha patterns. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 257/1 Barnet and Lodge (1966) have averaged responses to 100 clicks or pure-tone bursts during deep sleep (high-voltage spindling in the eeg) in 22 infants.
▪ II. ˈspindling, ppl. a.
[f. spindle v.]
1. Of plants: Growing or shooting out into (long) stalks or stems, esp. of a slender or weakly kind.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 217 Its numerous branches are spindling and weak. 1767Fawkes Theocr. iv. 65 How high these thorns, and spindling brambles grow! 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 546 Such warm sorts of land..are apt..to push the plants forward in such a rapid manner, that they become weak and spindling. 1851B'ham & Midl. Gardener's Mag. Apr. 42 If they [sc. cuttings] are neglected in this particular they will grow spindling. 1885Athenæum 23 May 669/1 Five spindling pines stand in the midst of a sandy waste.
fig.1871Mrs. Stowe My Wife ix, Doubt..breaks a fellow up, and makes him morally spindling and sickly.
2. Of things: Slender, spindly.
1858Holland Titcomb's Lett. vi. 59 There are others who are coming up delicately with spindling shanks, and narrow shoulders. 1861Athenæum 29 June 867 The spindling piers of stone are not grave enough in character. |