spinner : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spinner	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spinner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinner n someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn: spinner, spinster, thread maker] board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spinner \Spin"ner\, n. 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. [bd]Long-legged spinners.[b8] --Shak. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. 4. (Zo[94]l.) 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.