spin·ner /ˈspɪnɚ/
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Spin·ner n.
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
2. A spider. “Long-legged spinners.”
3. Zool. A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
4. Zool. 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.
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spinner
n 1: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn: spinster,
thread maker]
2: board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow
that is spun to determine the next move in the game
3: fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water