Spinner /(spĭn"nẽr)/
Spin·ner
Spinner
n.
- One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
- A spider.
- A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (Zool.)
- A spinneret. (Zool.)
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.