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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

... handles, in which the Sunday and holiday clothing is kept, the tall arm-chair, hard and uncomfortable as a church-pew, the painted wooden chairs, and the spinning-wheel striped with green, to contrast with the scarlet petticoat of the spinner. ...

— Ticket No. "9672" • Jules Verne

... education has been almost wholly intellectual and material; intellectual education gave us the don, and material education gave us the cotton-spinner. The emotional and the spiritual in mankind had no outlet. In the unconscious of man there is a God and a Devil, and intellectual activities afford no means of expression to either. And when any godlike or devilish ...

— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill

... spindle. "Truly, Priscilla," he said, "when I see you spinning and spinning, Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others, 870 Suddenly you are transformed, are visibly changed in a moment; You are no longer Priscilla, but Bertha the Beautiful Spinner."[50] Here the light foot on the treadle grew swifter and swifter; the spindle Uttered an angry snarl, and the thread snapped short in her fingers; While the impetuous speaker, not heeding the mischief, continued 875 "You are the beautiful Bertha; the spinner, the queen of Helvetia;[51] ...

— Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School • O. J. Stevenson

... just such a lathe as this that the teapot spinner stands before at his work, which is to make a handsome tea or ...

— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

... branches of the textile and metal trades the division of processes appears at first sight more sharply marked than to-day. The carder, spinner, weaver, fuller in the cloth trade worked in the several processes of converting raw wool into finished cloth, related to one another only by a series of middlemen who supplied them with the material required for their work and received ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

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