Searchable Lemmata: spinel (OE), spindel (ME), spinil, spindel.
Alternate Forms: spinle.
1(n.)
Manufacture;
a tool for spinning in the form of a shaped stick. In spinning, that part of the equipment that rotates. A drop spindle is rotated by the fingers, the spindle or spindles on a spinning wheel are driven by the wheel which is rotated by the hand or by treadles.(circa 800 still in current use)
3. & fela towtola: flexlinan, spinle, reol, gearnwindan, stodlan, lorgas, presse, pihten, timplean, wifte, wefle, wulcamb, cip, amb, crancstæf, sceaðele, seamsticcan, scearra, nædle, slic.
[DOE LawGer (0021 (15.1)) circa 1000/1100]
4. Ealswa gæð : haec sinodus : þis witena gemot, huius sinodi ; humus : molde; heremus : westen; herebus : hell; aluus : innoð; fusus : spinl.
[DOE ÆGram (0222 (30.7))]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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2(n.)
Manufacture;
A tenterhook. This gloss is likely a scribal error, as spindel should read sprindel, cf. OE sprindel.
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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