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Spinner

noun

Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads). Synonyms: 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.

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"Spinner" Quotes from Famous Books

... [This was Clovelly's heroine, whom he had tried to draw, as he said himself, "with a perfect sincerity and a lovely worldly-mindedness, and a sweet creation altogether."] "I said, that's poetic justice, that's the refinement of retribution. Any other yarn-spinner would have killed the male idiot by murder, or a drop from a precipice, or a lingering fever; but Clovelly did the thing with delicate torture. He said, 'Go to blazes,' and he fixed up that marriage—and there you are! Clovelly, I drink to you; ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... admit of so many subdivisions of labour, nor of so complete a separation of one business from another, as manufactures. It is impossible to separate so entirely the business of the grazier from that of the corn-farmer, as the trade of the carpenter is commonly separated from that of the smith. The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver; but the ploughman, the harrower, the sower of the seed, and the reaper of the corn, are often the same. The occasions for those different sorts of labour returning with the different seasons of the year, it is impossible that ...

— An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations • Adam Smith

... experience, and often painful thought and anxiety, can give. The next thing will be—indeed, we're all but come to it now—that we shall have to go and ask—stand hat in hand—and humbly ask the secretary of the Spinner' Union to be so kind as to furnish us with labour at their own price. That's what they want—they, who haven't the sense to see that, if we don't get a fair share of the profits to compensate us for our wear and tear here in England, we can move off to some other country; ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Words linked to "Spinner" : fishing gear, fish lure, fishing rig, maker, web spinner, rig, fishing tackle, spin, fisherman's lure, shaper, tackle, game equipment, thread maker