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spinster |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spinster \Spin"ster\, n. [Spin + -ster.] 1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out --Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. --Shak. 2. A man who spins. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. --Coke. 4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: spinster n 1: an elderly unmarried woman [syn: {old maid}] 2: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn: {spinner}, {thread maker}]
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