Axle
An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle. In the former case, bearings or bushings are provided at the mounting points where the axle is supported. In the latter case, a bearing or bushing sits inside a central hole in the wheel to allow the wheel or gear to rotate around the axle. Sometimes, especially on bicycles, the latter type axle is referred to as a spindle.
Spindle (noun)
A rod used for spinning and then winding natural 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.
Spindle (noun)
A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
“the spindle of a vane”
Spindle (noun)
A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
Spindle (noun)
Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
Spindle (noun)
An upright skewering.
Spindle (noun)
The fusee of a watch.
Spindle (noun)
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
Spindle (noun)
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
Spindle (noun)
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Spindle (noun)
Any marine univalve shell of the genus genus; a spindle stromb.
Spindle (noun)
Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
Spindle (noun)
A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
Spindle (noun)
a dragonfly
Spindle (verb)
To make into a long tapered shape.
Spindle (verb)
To take on a long tapered shape.
Spindle (verb)
To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
“Do not fold, spindle or mutilate this document.”
Axle (noun)
Shoulder.
Axle (noun)
The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.
Axle (noun)
A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
Axle (noun)
An axis; as, the Sun’s axle.
Spindle (noun)
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.
Spindle (noun)
a pin or rod used on a spinning wheel to twist and wind the thread.
Spindle (noun)
a pin bearing the bobbin of a spinning machine.
Spindle (noun)
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.
Spindle (noun)
a turned piece of wood used as a banister or chair leg.
Spindle (noun)
a pointed metal rod on a base, used for filing paper items.
Spindle (noun)
a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.
Spindle (noun)
the vertical rod at the centre of a record turntable which keeps the record in place during play.
Spindle (noun)
a slender mass of microtubules formed when a cell divides. At metaphase the chromosomes become attached to it by their centromeres before being pulled towards its ends.
Spindle (noun)
a Eurasian shrub or small tree with slender toothed leaves and pink capsules containing bright orange seeds. Its hard timber was formerly used for making spindles.