Category:Spinster

Spin"ster, n. Etym: [spin + -ster.]

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.]