spinner

spinner is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

[2] A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.

[3] A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

[4] 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.

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