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Definition of Spindling
1. a. Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.
Definition of Spindling
1. Verb. (present participle of spindle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spindling
1. spindle [v] - See also: spindle
Medical Definition of Spindling
1. Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spindling
Literary usage of Spindling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Naval Timber and Arboriculture: With Critical Notes on Authors who Have by Patrick Matthew (1831)
"From facts we are also assured, that, in some hard wood kinds, and also in the
Coniferae, the hanging of the growth of the young plant, the spindling up in ..."
2. Bulletin by Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1920)
"These effects in regard to net-necrosis and spindling-sprout will now be discussed.
RELATION TO NET-NECROSIS AND spindling-SPROUT Net-necrosis is the name ..."
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