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Pronunciation : Spin"ner
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.

3. (Zo?l.)

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

4. (Zo?l.)

Defn: 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