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† spin-rock Obs. rare.
Also 5 spynroke.
[ad. MDu. spinrocke, -roc (WFlem. -rokke, -rok), -rocken (Du. -rokken), = G. spinnrocken, † -rocke, -rock: see spin v. and rock n.2]
A distaff.
A variant of the Fr. phrase translated in quot. 1623 is similarly rendered in Dutch of the 16th cent.
1483Caxton G. de la Tour F j, She tooke in her handes a spynroke with blacke wolle and beganne to spynne. 1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 515/2 Those be old Wiues Tales, That is written in the Booke of Spin-Rockes [= F. livre des quenouilles]. 1648Hexham ii, Een Wocke, a Spin-rocke, or a Distaffe. |