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SPINDLE
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English
English : perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a spindle maker, from Middle English spindle, spindel (Old English spinel).Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Spindel.
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English
English : occupational name for a tumbler or jester, from an agent derivative of Middle English spill(en) ‘to play, jest, or sport’ (Old English spilian).English : nickname for a destructive or wasteful person, from an agent derivative of the homonymous Middle English spill(en) ‘to spoil, waste, or squander’ (Old English spillan).German and Dutch : occupational name for a spindle maker, a variant of Spille with the addition of the agent suffix -er.In some cases a variant of German Spieler.
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English, German, or Jewish
English, German, or Jewish : variant of Spindler.
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English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a spindle maker, from an agent derivative of Middle English spindle, Middle High German spindel, German Spindel, Yiddish shpindl ‘spindle’, ‘distaff’.
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English (Bristol)
English (Bristol) : of uncertain derivation; perhaps a Norman metonymic occupational name for a spinner or a maker of spindles, from Old French fusel ‘spindle’ (Late Latin fusellus, a diminutive of classical Latin fusus).Americanized spelling of German Füssel, a diminutive of Fuss.
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Tamil
Liberation
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Handsome; Nice
Boy/Male
Arabic, Hindu, Indian
Lord Vishnu
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Tamil
A flower
Girl/Female
Indian
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English
English : habitational name, possibly a variant spelling of Creighton.
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Biblical
Nourished by Jupiter.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, German, Hebrew, Irish
Bitter; From the Gaelic Maili which is a Pet Form of Mary Bitter
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Happy
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Muslim
Science
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n.
A spindle.
v. i.
A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
n.
A spindle; a kind of reel; a winch.
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The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.
v. t.
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
a.
Having the shape of a spindle.
n.
A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
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The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
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Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
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A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
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The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
v. i.
To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
imp. & p. p.
of Spindle
a.
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots.
v. t.
A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
n.
A spindleshanks.
v. i.
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
n.
The pintail duck.
n. & v.
The fly of a spindle.
n.
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.