Spinster
Pronunciation : Spin"ster
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Spin + -ster.]
Definition : 1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak.
2. A man who spins. [Obs.] Shak.
3. (Law)
Defn: An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. Coke.
4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913