What does "spin" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness. By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives. L'Estrange.
2. 3.To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
3. 4.To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
4. 5.(Mech.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe. To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. -- To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. -- To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping. [Collog.]
5. 6.To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness. They neither know to spin, nor care to toll. Prior.
6. 7.To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis. Round about him spun the landscape, Sky and forest reeled together. Longfellow. With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head. G. W. Cable.
7. 8.To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. Shak.
8. 9.To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.]
9. 10.The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. [Colloq.]
10. 11.(Kinematics) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis. go for a spin take a spin, take a trip in a wheeled vehicle, usu. an automobile.