| 单词 | spindle |
| 释义 | spindle (once / 2476 pages) n A spindle is a narrow wooden rod that's used when spinning wool. If your aunt has a spinning wheel for making yarn from the wool of her sheep, it must have a spindle on it for twisting the fibers. The noun spindle can be used to talk about a number of different forms of wooden rod or dowel, particularly if they turn or spin. A yarn spinner's spindle is one kind — another is a chair leg or a banister rail that was made from being turned on a lathe. In fact, spindle and spin share a common root word, the Old English spinnan, "draw out and twist fibers into a thread." WORD FAMILYspindle: spindles USAGE EXAMPLESThe Chicago Tribune in July referred to the mansion as “the state’s most embarrassing fixer-upper,” describing overgrown gardens, crumbling bricks, sagging balconies and missing spindles. Washington Times(Oct 24, 2016) First, the spindles and looms shifted to the low-wage South. Wall Street Journal(Oct 21, 2016) It breaks my heart that the city where I grew up --Fall River, MA, the Spindle City-- is a Trump stronghold. New York Times(Sep 28, 2016) 1n a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning Hyper stick an implement consisting of a length of wood 2n any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts Syn|Hyper arbor, mandrel, mandril rotating shaft, shaft a revolving rod that transmits power or motion 3n any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object Syn|Hyper spike holding device a device for holding something 4n a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. Hyper piece a separate part of a whole 5n (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis Hyper fiber, fibre a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
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