What does "spinner" mean?
Spinner: A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.(Zoöl.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
- 3.(Zoöl.) 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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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