spindle

(noun): (spinning) 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.
(noun): A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
(noun): A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
(noun): Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
(noun): An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
(noun): The fusee of a watch.
(noun): A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
(noun): A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
(noun): A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
(noun): Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
(noun): Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
(noun): A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
(noun): (coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
(verb): To make into a long tapered shape.
(verb): To take on a long tapered shape.
(verb): To impale on a device for holding paper documents.