2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spinner \Spin"ner\, n.
1. One who or that which spins one skilled in spinning; a
spinning machine.
2. A spider. ``Long-legged spinners.'' --Shak.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar
noise it makes when darting through the air.
4. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spinner
n 1: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn: {spinster},
{thread maker}]
2: fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
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