Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spindled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spindle \Spin"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Spindled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Spindling}.]
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to
become disproportionately tall and slender.
It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality.
--Lowell.
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