Definition of "spindling" []

• Spindly. (adjective)

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• "Ben, whenever I try to answer this, I feel my brain spindling off into a thousand different directions at once."
• "Plants with large broad leaves are considered the best, those that grow tall and "spindling" or "long shank" plants, as they are called at the South, are rejected and should not be set out when others that are more "stocky" can be obtained."
• ""spindling" appearance of his boyhood, but even then he possessed certain of the remarkable features familiar to every boy and girl who has studied the portraits of Napoleon the emperor."