As with distaff, sometimes formerly used as a metonym for "the female sex," as in Old English spinelhealf "female line of descent," distinguished from sperehealf "male line of descent. As a type of something slender, it is attested from 1570s, especially of legs. as "axle of any revolving tool or instrument." As a quantity or measure of yarn ("amount collected on a spindle"), mid-15c. (n.) early 13c. Transferred to the pin in spinning-wheels, then late 18c. During triangular stretches, SEEs reduced the mean IFR during the first and second stretches, affecting the history dependence of mean IFR. noun : a fusiform cell (as in some tumors) Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web The 3-year-old was diagnosed with a very rare, soft tissue cancer, called spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma, in July.
But it also might be a euphonic insertion, as in kindred, tender, etc., for which process see sound (n.1). The -d- perhaps is by influence of windel "wooden reel for winding yarn" (early 14c., itself perhaps from a derivative of Old Norse vindla "to wind up" or Middle Dutch windelen). It is cognate with Old Saxon spinnila, Old Frisian spindel, Old High German spinnila, German Spindel. Spindle cell lesions can occur in head and neck skin, in the soft tissues of the scalp, orbit, and neck, and along the upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) mucosa. When the word subspindle is used, it typically means that the spindle to the right is inferior to the spindle to the left. one of the thin rods or pins bearing bobbins upon which spun thread is wound in a spinning wheel or machine 3. a rod or stick that has a notch in the top, used to draw out natural fibres for spinning into thread, and a long narrow body around which the thread is wound when spun 2. Some are malignant while many others are benign or simply reactive in nature. spindle in British English (spndl ) noun 1.
"small tapering bar hung from the end of the thread as it is drawn from the fiber on the distaff," early 13c., spindel, with unetymological -d-, from Old English spinel "small wooden bar used in hand-spinning," properly "an instrument for spinning," from stem of spinnan (see spin (v.)) + instrumental suffix -el (1) as in handle, treadle, thimble, etc. Spindle cell lesions of the head and neck are quite diverse with great clinical and biological heterogeneity.
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