Spinner /(spĭn"nẽr)/

Spin·ner

Spinner

n.
  1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
  2. A spider.
  3. A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (Zool.)
  4. 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.