n.[C]

1. 紡錘，錠子
   The song of the spindle was silent.

   紡錘的歌聲沉默了。

2. 司品德（紗的長度單位）
   Spindle is the measure for yarn.

   司品德是紗的度量單位。

3. 【生】紡錘體
   Muscle spindles are found within the belly muscles and run in parallel with the main muscle fibers.

   腹肌裡有肌梭，它們與主要肌纖維平行。

4. 【機】杆，軸；心軸；指軸
   The spindle seemed to be out of order.

   心軸好像壞了。

5. （插票據等用的）扦子
   The clerk put the check on a spindle.

   店員將支票放到扦子上。

6. （液體）比重計
   Can you pass me the spindle, please?

   請把比重計遞給我好嗎？

vi.

1. 長得細長
   The spindling tree grew bigger without our notice.

   這棵長得細長的樹在我們不知不覺中長粗了。

vt.

1. 使成紡錘形
   There is a white-spindled staircase leading to the pulpit.

   有一個白色紡錘形的階梯通往講道壇。

2. 裝錠子於
3. 【美】將（單據等）插放於紙扦上
   Do not spindle this card.

   不要將這張卡片插在紙扦上。

a.

1. 紡錘形的；細長的
   Even from distance I could tell from the spindle figure that the approaching man was David.

   儘管在遠處我也能從這細長的身軀辨別出來人是大衛。

n.

1. a slender rounded rod with tapered ends used in hand spinning to twist and wind thread from a mass of wool or flax held on a distaff.
   ▸a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.
2. a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.
3. a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.
4. Biology  a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides.
5. a measure of length for yarn, equal to 15,120 yards (13,826 metres) for cotton or 14,400 yards (13,167 metres) for linen.
6. N. Amer. a spike for filing papers.