Word Meanings - SPINDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
Related words: (words related to SPINDLING)
- 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.