What is the meaning of spindle?

Answer 1

The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom., A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane., 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 core of sand is formed., The fusee of a watch., A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle., A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards., A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord., Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb., Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus., To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

Answer 2

A spindle:

• is used to make yarn;
• keeps a record centered on the turntable of a record player;
• forms during anaphase in a cell undergoing mitosis and participates in pulling the DNA apart;
• presses against the pinch-wheel in a tape recorder to pull the tape across the head;
• connects the seat to the top rail to form the back of a wooden chair;
• is used to hold receipts on the check-out counter.

Answer 3

A rod or pin, tapered at one end and usually weighted at the other, on which fibers are spun by hand into thread and then wound.

Answer 4

the spindle pulls apart chromatids during metaphase