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noun

Spinner n.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

A spider. "Long-legged spinners."

(Zool.) A goatsucker; so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

(Zool.) A spinneret.

Ring spinner, a machine for spinning, in which the twist, given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.

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Etymology of 'Spinner'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spinner" Quotes from Famous Books

... learned to do a spinner's work, and I obtained permission to tend some frames that stood directly in front of the river-windows, with only them and the wall behind me, extending half the length of the mill,—and one young woman beside me, at the ...

— A New England Girlhood • Lucy Larcom

... breakfast. So great was now the deference to him who three days ago had been "madman" and "black magician", "dreaming fool" and "spinner without thread!" Now it was "Admiral", "Excellency", and "What shall we do next?" and "What is your ...

— 1492 • Mary Johnston

... 'spert spinner an' weaver, an' she spun an' wove things ter be sont ter de Soldiers in de War. I 'members dat, her er spinnin' an' dey say hit ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... known as teasing. Buchanan remarked that women frequently did the work themselves at home, using a smaller kind of bow called dhunkara. The clean cotton is made up into balls, some of which are passed on to the spinner, while others are used for the filling of quilts and the padded coats worn in the cold weather. The ingenious though rather clumsy method of the Bahna has been superseded by the ginning-factory, and little or no cotton destined for the spindle is now cleaned ...

— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell

... for a sentimentalist and spinner of fine theories when I had thought I detected a little defiance in her first assumption of this midnight black robe, with its startling corals on her arm and neck, and the foreign-looking comb behind her high-dressed ...

— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

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