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Textiles and manufacturing. 1  Spindle (textiles), a device to spin fibers into thread. 2  Spindle (tool), a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its heart. 3  Segmented spindle, a spindle consisting of discrete elements that can be assembled and disassembled on the fly.
It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a whorl, but many spindles exist that are not weighted by a whorl, but by thickening their shape towards the bottom, such as Orenburg and French spindles.