Category:Spinner

Spin"ner, n.

1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning Machine.

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

3. (zoöl.)

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

4. (zoöl.)

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.