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spinner

spinner is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
  2. 2.(Zoöl.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
  3. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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