Rod vs. Spindle

A fishing rod.

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.

A piston rod.

a rod or pin serving as an axis that revolves or on which something revolves.

An often expandable horizontal bar, especially of metal, used to suspend household items such as curtains or towels.

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.

A leveling rod.

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.

A lightning rod.

A rod or pin, tapered at one end and usually weighted at the other, on which fibers are spun by hand into thread and then wound.

A divining rod.

A similar rod or pin used for spinning on a spinning wheel.

A measuring stick.

A pin or rod holding a bobbin or spool on which thread is wound on an automated spinning machine.

One of the horizontal elements in a truss system underneath a rail car, especially a freight car.

Any of various mechanical parts that revolve or serve as axes for larger revolving parts, as in a lock, axle, phonograph turntable, or lathe.

A shoot or stem cut from or growing as part of a woody plant.

A spike on which papers may be impaled.

A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping.

A baluster.

Punishment; correction.

(Biology) A cytoplasmic network composed of microtubules along which the chromosomes are distributed during mitosis and meiosis.

A scepter, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority.

(Anatomy) See muscle spindle.

Power or dominion, especially of a tyrannical nature

Coastal New Jersey See dragonfly.

A linear measure equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.03 meters). Also called pole2.

To furnish or equip with a spindle or spindles.

The square of this measure, equal to 30.25 square yards or 272.25 square feet (25.30 square meters).

To impale or perforate on a spindle

(Anatomy) Any of various rod-shaped cells in the retina that respond to dim light. Also called rod cell.

To grow into a thin, elongated, or weak form.

(Microbiology) An elongated bacterium; a bacillus.

(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.

(Slang) A pistol or revolver.

A rod which turns, or on which something turns.

Vulgar Slang A penis, especially when erect.

A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.

A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.

Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.

A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.

An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.

(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.

The fusee of a watch.

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.

A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.

(geometry) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, 4 chain, 2 yards, 2 feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).

Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.

An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 2 yards.

Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.

(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 4 square yards or 160 acre.

(biology) A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis

A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a driveshaft.

(coastal New Jersey) a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.

(anatomy) A rod cell: a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.

(computing) A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.

(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.

A muscle spindle.

(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 8 to 4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.

(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape.

(slang) A pistol; a gun.

(intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape.

A penis.

(transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.

The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.

(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.

A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.

(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.

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.

(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, and some diesel shunters and early electric locomotives.

The fusee of a watch.

(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.

The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.

(transitive) To furnish with rods, especially lightning rods.

A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.

To penetrate sexually.

A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

(slang) To hot rod.

A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).

A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.

A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.

Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; - called also spindle stromb.

A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.

a linear measure of 16.5 feet

(biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle;

a long thin implement made of metal or wood

any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

any rod-shaped bacterium

a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning

a square rod of land

visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light

a gangster's pistol