SPINNERS

Noun

spinners

plural of spinner

Anagrams

• nesprins

Source: Wiktionary


SPINNER

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. (Zoƶl.)

Definition: A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

4. (Zoƶl.)

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



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SQUARE

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