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, e.g. a spinning frame
the pin in a loom shuttle
a turned often decorative piece, e.g. in a baluster
= newel
a pin or axis about which something turns
a spike on which papers can be impaled
the bar or shaft, usu of square section, that carries the knobs and actuates the latch or bolt of a lock
a spindle-shaped figure seen in microscopic sections of dividing cells along which the chromosomes are distributed
[Old English spinel]