spinner
(noun) fisherman’s lure; revolves when drawn through the water
spinner
(noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
spinner, spinster, thread maker
(noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spinner (plural spinners)
Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
(Australia, NZ) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
(slang, cinema) Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
(computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
(cricket) A spin bowler.
(fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
The European Nightjar, Camprimulgus europaeus.
A spinneret.
(archaic) A spider.
(Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
(politics, slang) A spin doctor.
Short for fidget spinner.
(pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
• nesprin, pinners
Source: Wiktionary
Spin"ner, n.
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
