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Word Meanings - SPINDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

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  • SPINDLE-SHAPED
    Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
  • SPINDLESHANKS
    A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
  • SPINDLEWORM
    The larva of a noctuid mmoth which feeds inside the stalks of corn , sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
  • SPINDLING
    Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
  • SPINDLETAIL
    The pintail duck.
  • SLENDER
    Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
  • SPINDLE
    The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. A shaft or pipe on which a
  • SPINDLE-SHANKED
    Having long, slender legs. Addison.
  • SPINDLELEGS
    A spindlehanks.
  • SPINDLE-LEGGED
    Having long, slender legs.

 

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