ring spinner

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ring spinner - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Spinner \Spin"ner\ (sp[i^]n"n[~e]r), n.
     1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a
        spinning machine.
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     2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." --Shak.
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     3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise
        it makes when darting through the air.
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     4. (Zool.) A spinneret.
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     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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