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ˈspindled, ppl. a.
[f. spindle n. or v.]
1. a. Of corn: Shot up into the slender pointed stalks which afterwards bear the ear.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xvii. 258 Of the seede sowen, at one instant, some is spindled, some is in the eare, and some doth but bud. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 178 Then the corne was spindled and began to be eared. 1764Museum Rust. II. 253 He must then..go among the spindled corn.
b. With up: Overgrown in height or length in proportion to strength or stoutness.
1855F. Chamier My Travels I. x. 167 A tall, thin king, spindled up like a weak geranium. 1885Bazaar 30 Mar. 1255/3 These are fine compact bushy plants and not spindled up rubbish.
2. Attenuated, thin, slender.
1584B. R. tr. Herodotus ii. 76 There be two mountaines..arising into sharpe and spindled tops. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Clean Linen Ded., Wks. II. 165 A good Legge is a great grace if it be discreetly essex'd in the calfe, and not too much spindled in the small.
3. a. Spindle-shaped; slightly bulging.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 460 In the former state, teats are very apt to become corded or spindled.
b. Of a spar or strut for an aeroplane wing: having been recessed and tapered. Also with out.
1919S. Camm Aeroplane Construction iii. 23 This [steel] strut..is superior to the solid spindled strut..which possesses a tendency to buckle laterally. 1928Technical Rep. Aeronaut. Res. Committee 1926–7 467 The fracture ran through part of the bolt hole and tended to follow a ‘zig-zag’ course on its way into the spindled portion. 1930Flight 17 Jan. 119/1 The wing is of equally simple construction with two spindled-out spruce spars and light girder ribs.
4. Twisted or wound on the spindle.
1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 93 The Minyeides..With rosy fingers twirl the spindled wool. |