紡ぼう錘すい

noun

spindle

A tool used in spinning fibers into thread. The reading ぼうすい is standard; the single-character form 錘 with readings つむ or つみ is archaic or literary.

• 昔むかしの人ひとは紡ぼう錘すいを使つかって糸いとを紡つむいだ。

  People in the past spun thread using a spindle.