Word Meanings - SPINDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

Related words: (words related to SPINDLING)

• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• SPINDLESHANKS
  A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
• SPINDLEWORM
  The larva of a noctuid mmoth which feeds inside the stalks of corn , sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment.
• SPINDLING
  Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
• SPINDLETAIL
  The pintail duck.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• SPINDLE
  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
• SPINDLE-SHANKED
  Having long, slender legs. Addison.
• SPINDLELEGS
  A spindlehanks.
• SPINDLE-LEGGED
  Having long, slender legs.