Spinner
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. One that spins; one skilled in spinning.
Spinner
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
3. A
goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when
darting through the air.
One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they
spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the
spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.
One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.