8 They're also huge. The Great Lakes touch Canada, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Combined, the length of all five shorelines is about 44 percent of the Earth's circumference.
1 Spindle (textiles) , a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool) , is the main rotating part of a machine tool, woodworking machine, etc. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.
Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: spindle (noun). (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle.chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis. spindle (noun).rinceton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: spindle (noun). (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle.