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Spindel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arbor noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  • barrel noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  • newel noun Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
  • spindle noun A slender rod used for spinning fiber into thread, or more generally, any rod or axis that something turns on.

Senses

Spindel is used for these senses in English:

  • arbor An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • arbor A spindle of a wheel.
  • barrel (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • fusil (heraldiccharge) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.
  • spindle (spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

arbor — full definition

  1. noun A shaded garden structure covered with climbing plants, used as a place to sit.
  2. noun A rotating shaft or spindle in a machine, such as a lathe, that supports a moving part.

barrel — full definition

  1. noun A large, round wooden or metal container, usually bulging in the middle, used to store liquids or other goods.
  2. noun A unit of volume, especially for measuring oil.
  3. noun The long metal tube of a gun through which a bullet travels.
  4. verb To move very fast, often in an uncontrolled way.

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