(obsolete) Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

(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.

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape. / (intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape. / (transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

simple past tense and past participle of spindle

A structure of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton involved in mitosis and meiosis.

tapering at each end

Enough to fill a spindle.

plural of spindleful

plural of spindle tree

Any of certain trees or any species belonging to the Euonymus genus, a group of flowering plants in the staff vine family.