spinnern.
/ˈspɪnə/, U.S. /ˈspɪnər/ I. A person who or thing which spins something.1770 Monthly Rev. 72 Those mushroom romances, which our expert Novel spinners will manufacture in a Week.1851 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales II. vi. 97 I am a spinner of long yarns.1874 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 162 Osric, spinner of fine sentences.1898 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer II. i. 5 Already an accomplished spinner of boyish stories.
1. attributive.c1475 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 (K.) Spinnar webbe, tela aranee.1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 164 Spinner-web or Spinner-mesh, the spider's web.
a. A spider, esp. one which spins a web.Frequently c1530–1615; now dialect or rhetorical.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider)
lopc888
attercopc1000
lobc1000
spinnerc1220
araina1300
spider1340
yraync1384
copa1400
spincop1474
copspin1484
ettercapa1525
web-weaver1534
spinster1636
cob1657
weaver1825
araneidan1835
Meggie-lickie-spinnie1849
silk-spinner1868
orbitele1890
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > unspecified type > web-spinning or sedentary
spinnerc1220
web-worker1658
silk-spider1728
sedentary1815
web-spinner1825
c1220 Bestiary 462 Natura aranee... Ðe spinnere on hire swid ȝe [? read spindle] weveð.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 Spynnare, or erany, aranea.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. ix. 763 A serpent..sucketh gladly the moysture therof as the spynner suckyth flies.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Bjv Whan a persone is stynged of a spynner.
1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees 10 The spinner through her web hanging downe before the hiue..doth much molest and trouble them.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 360 These be our common spiders or spinners which against wals vse to stretch out their large webs.
1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 220 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. A Spinner hanging by its weak thread from the brim of ones Hat.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Spinner,..a small sort of harmless Spider.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 414 The spinner's web hangs in the yielding air incapable of molesting it.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 18 The forlorn attempt of a solitary spinner to establish himself in the corner of a window.
1842 Dumfries Herald Oct. Earwigs, beetles, and long-legged spinners, the living..residuum of the last cart~load of peas.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Spinner, a spider.
b. A caterpillar which spins a web or cocoon; a silkworm. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that spins cocoon
spinner1598
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth > caterpillar of bombyx mori or silkworm
worma900
silkwormc1000
bombyxa1398
spinner1598
Serian worm1633
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Cauagliere,..a silke worme or spinner.
1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 239 Their caterpillars..are generally spinners, and, with few exceptions, make cocoons in which they are transformed.
c. dialect. A daddy-longlegs, = jenny-spinner n. 1. Also spinner-fly.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Tipulidae > member of (crane-fly)
crane-fly1658
harry-long-legs1676
tailor1682
long legs1721
father-long-legs1742
Tipula1752
tommy-long-legs1800
Tom Tailor1800
meadow crane fly1813
jenny-spinner1817
daddy-long-legs1829
spinner-fly1848
granddaddy-long-legs1858
tipulid1893
1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 330 The larva of the long-legged spinner fly (Tipula oleracea, &c.).
2. figurative.1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel III. 175 My mother..was one of the lilies of the field,..my father..belonged to the toilers and spinners.
a. One who spins cotton, wool, yarn, etc.; esp. one whose occupation it is to do this; a workman or workwoman engaged in spinning; one who attends to or works a spinning-machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > one who
spinner1393
twister1579
twisterer1725
yarn-spinner1813
twiner1885
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 222 Hue spak to þe spynnesters [v.r. spinnere] to spynnen hit oute.
1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 201/2 Many Cloth makers, that is to wite, men, Wevers, Fullers, Diers; and women, Kempers, Carders and Spynners.
1536 Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 4 ⁋1 Weauers, tuckers, spinners, diers, and wulpikers.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1595 Sporiors, Spicers, Spynners of clothe.
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 50v Drie flax get in, for spinners to spin.
1610–11 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 193 To a spinner, for spinning xvj days flaxe,..xvjd.
1679 T. Jordan London in Luster 17 Carders, Spinners, Dyers, Wool-combers, Sheerers, Dressers, Fullers.
1744 H. Brooke Love & Vanity 211 Trust me from titled dames to spinners, 'Tis I make saints, whoe'er makes sinners.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. i. 8 The spinner is almost always a distinct person from the weaver. View more context for this quotation
1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) 9 All present were spinners and power-loom weavers.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1494/2 Previous to the invention of the mule few spinners could make yarn of 200 hanks to the pound.
b. A manufacturer or merchant engaged in spinning, esp. cotton-spinning; a master-spinner.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > one who > manufacturer or merchant
spinner1834
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 346/1 For several years, the market prices of cotton twist were fixed by Arkwright, all other spinners conforming to his scale.
1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 203 The supply of cotton has not been sufficient for the wants of the spinners and the manufacturers of the world.
1870 H. Smart Race for Wife ii. 46 The old county families are swept away by these spinners, brewers, solicitors, and such like.
c. transferred. The nightjar, Caprimulgus europæus.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus europaeus (nightjar)
goat-milker1611
goatsucker1611
nighthawk1611
nightjar1630
dor-hawk1668
churn-owl1674
fern-owl1678
goat owl1766
eve-jara1793
puckeridgea1793
moth-hunter1816
wheel-bird1817
jar-owl1832
nightchurr1837
night-swallow1840
eve-churr1861
wheeler1862
scissors-grinder1875
puck1878
spinner1885
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 97.
3. figurative. One who spins, tells, or relates (a story, yarn, etc.).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller
tale-tellera1387
talesman?a1505
historian1586
fabulator1604
tales-master1656
narrator1722
spinner1770
storier1816
Scheherazade1851
yarn-spinner1865
yarn-teller1891
yarn-slinger1897
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 134 You were ἀμάχιτος, not to be dealt withall by any Postillating Breuiarist, or Polyanthean spinner up of Sermon webs.]
4.
a. = spinneret n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > spinning organ
spinner1815
spinneret1826
seripositor1879
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > parts of > spinneret
spinner1815
spinneret1826
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > parts of > pore on lower lip
spinner1815
spinneret1826
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. 406 If you examine a spider, you will perceive in this part [of the abdomen] four little teat-like protuberances or spinners.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. ix. 188 A spider..darted forth four or five threads from its spinners.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 292/1 The spinners consist of from one to three joints..; in Tetrablemma (Cambr.) they are enclosed in a kind of corneous sheath.
b. technical. A spinning-machine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine
twiner1611
twistera1703
filatory?18..
iron man1827
spinner1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2269/2 Spinner, a general term for a spinning-machine... Specifically applied to a form of drawing and twisting device.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) II. 107/1 This gigantic spinner and weaver needs very little assistance from man.
c. = spinneret n. 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of man-made thread > equipment for
spinneret1894
spinner1904
godet1917
knot-catcher1927
1904 W. T. Brannt tr. J. Bersh Cellulose ix. 215 To the lower end of the cylinder is secured a steel pipe furnished with glass spinners.
5. One of the principal supporting threads of the spider's web.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > web > principal supporting thread
spinner1861
stabilimentum1912
1861 Sat. Rev. 25 May 525 Long dark cables..looking like the first radial ‘spinners’ constructed by the spider to carry the finer and continuous tissue of his web.
II. Something that spins or rotates, and related uses.
6. Angling.
a. One or other of several flies, or artificial imitations of these, used esp. in trout-fishing.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies
stone-flya1450
ant-fly1653
hawthorn-fly1653
mayfly1653
oak fly1653
wall-fly1653
pismire-fly1670
cow-lady1676
mayfly1676
owl fly1676
brown1681
cow-turd-fly1684
trout-fly1746
orl fly1747
hazel fly?1758
iron-blue fly?1758
red spinner?1758
Welshman's button?1758
buzz1760
Yellow Sally1766
ash-fly1787
black caterpillar1787
cow-dung fly1787
sharn-fly1787
spinner1787
woodcock-fly1787
huzzard1799
knop-fly1799
mackerel1799
watchet1799
iron blue1826
knob fly1829
mackerel fly1829
March brown1837
cinnamon fly1867
quill gnat1867
sedge-fly1867
cob-fly1870
woodcock wing1888
sedge1889
olive1895
quill1899
nymph1910
green weenie1977
Montana1987
the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > types of
moor flylOE
drake-flya1450
dub-flya1450
dun cut1496
dun fly1496
louper1496
red fly1616
moorish fly1635
palmer1653
palmer fly1653
red hackle1653
red palmer1653
shell-fly1653
orange fly1662
blackfly1669
dun1676
dun hackle1676
hackle1676
mayfly1676
peacock fly1676
thorn-tree fly1676
turkey-fly1676
violet-fly1676
whirling dun1676
badger fly1681
greenfly1686
moorish brown1689
prime dun1696
sandfly1700
grey midge1724
whirling blue1747
dun drake?1758
death drake1766
hackle fly1786
badger1787
blue1787
brown-fly1787
camel-brown1787
spinner1787
midge1799
night-fly1799
thorn-fly1799
turkey1799
withy-fly1799
grayling fly1811
sun fly1820
cock-a-bondy1835
brown moth1837
bunting-lark fly1837
governor1837
water-hen hackle1837
Waterloo fly1837
coachman1839
soldier palmer1839
blue jay1843
red tag1850
canary1855
white-tip1856
spider1857
bumble1859
doctor1860
ibis1863
Jock Scott1866
eagle1867
highlander1867
jay1867
John Scott1867
judge1867
parson1867
priest1867
snow-fly1867
Jack Scott1874
Alexandra1875
silver doctor1875
Alexandra fly1882
grackle1894
grizzly queen1894
heckle-fly1897
Zulu1898
thunder and lightning1910
streamer1919
Devon1924
peacock1950
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 104 June. The Palmers 5. The Great Red Spinner 5.
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 306 Red Spinner; begins with July..and is useful only in the evenings of sultry days.
1858 C. Kingsley Chalk-stream Stud. in Misc. (1860) I. 189 [The caperer] may..do duty..for the red spinner or perfect form of the Marchbrown ephemera.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 172 The spinners are only second in the estimation of the trout to the duns.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling vi. 181 The Brown Spinner..is another capital fly.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 5 May 4/2 He was using a small gilt spinner on fine tackle.
b. An angler who uses spinning-tackle.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > angler > others
troller1653
ground angler1835
spinner1836
bankster1885
switcher1893
plunker1926
moocher1947
flatliner1984
1836 F. Sykes Scraps from Jrnl. 70 A great advantage for the spinner, as a quantity of baits are always to be had.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 246 The very best spinners for large trout in the world are Thames fishermen.
c. (See quots.) Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > spinning bait
angel1867
propellera1884
spinnera1884
whirl1888
toby1969
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 840 Spinner, a trawling spoon-bait which revolves as it tows abaft the boat.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 840 Spinner, a flanged attachment in connection with a fish~hook to cause a lively motion of the hook and bait.
1895 Outing 26 358 A 6–0 hook with a lively smelt wired to it spinner fashion.
7.
a. A device which spins round or revolves; a teetotum, a top.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun]
top13..
spilquernc1375
prill1440
spilcockc1440
whirligigc1440
nun1585
nun-gig1615
Roaring Meg1632
totum1706
teetotum1720
spinner1799
spinning-top1821
jenny-spinner1824
diabolo1905
dreidel1916
1799 W. Jones Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (ed. 2) IV. l. 445 Here is a small spinner with an iron axis; I spin the spinner, and then take it up by a magnet.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 3/3 His favourite game was the Erratic Spinner... These [i.e. ninepins] had to be knocked over with a top or spinner of polished steel.
b. A cricket-ball bowled with a spin.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball
full toss1826
long hop1830
twister1832
bail ball1833
bailer1833
grubber1837
slow ball1838
wide1838
ground ball1839
shooter1843
slower ball1846
twiddler1847
creeper1848
lob1851
sneak1851
sneaker1851
slow1854
bumper1855
teaser1856
daisy-cutter1857
popper1857
yorker1861
sharpshooter1863
headball1866
screwball1866
underhand1866
skimmerc1868
grub1870
ramrod1870
raymonder1870
round-armer1871
grass cutter1876
short pitch1877
leg break1878
lob ball1880
off-break1883
donkey-drop1888
tice1888
fast break1889
leg-breaker1892
kicker1894
spinner1895
wrong 'un1897
googly1903
fizzer1904
dolly1906
short ball1911
wrong 'un1911
bosie1912
bouncer1913
flyer1913
percher1913
finger-spinner1920
inswinger1920
outswinger1920
swinger1920
off-spinner1924
away swinger1925
Chinaman1929
overspinner1930
tweaker1938
riser1944
leg-cutter1949
seamer1952
leggy1954
off-cutter1955
squatter1955
flipper1959
lifter1959
cutter1960
beamer1961
loosener1962
doosra1999
1895 Westm. Gaz. 2 Mar. 5/2 [He] got an undeniable spinner past the stubborn bat of the Lancashire man.
c. The person who tosses the coins in the game of two-up; come in spinner: the cry commonly used to start the game. Chiefly Australian.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > two up, etc. > [noun] > player
gaffer1828
spinner1911
ringie1917
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > two up, etc. > [interjection] > call to start game
come in spinner1945
1911 L. Stone Jonah ii. vi. 215 The spinner placed the two pennies face down on the kip, and then, with a turn of the wrist, the coins flew twenty feet into the air.
1945 T. Ronan Strangers on Ophir 119 Cries of ‘Another quid to see him go. Get set on the side. All set, come in Spinner.’
1948 V. Palmer Golconda iv. 25 Step in, spinner... I'm backing heads... They're up. Fair go.
1957 ‘N. Culotta’ They're Weird Mob (1958) viii. 117 He began to play... ‘Come in, spinner’..I sang softly.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling iii. 62 In this game [sc. two-up], two pennies are placed on a flat stick (called the ‘kip’) and are thrown into the air by the ‘spinner’.
1975 L. Ryan Shearers 97 ‘All set?’ Lofty asked. ‘Set!’ Sandy said. ‘Come in, spinner!’
d. Agriculture. A rotating device for lifting potatoes out of the ground.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > tools for lifting root crop
potato digger1795
picker1805
potato graip1844
potato hook1856
potato lifter1858
spinner1923
1923 J. R. Bond Farm Implements & Machinery xi. 164 The old high-speed spinner did considerable damage to the tubers.
1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure xvii. 197 Another machine with a great future is the potato digger or spinner.
1960 Times 5 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. viii/2 Spinners are still by far the most universal lifting appliances.
1973 M. Partridge Farm Tools through Ages v. 154/2 An iron share..preceded the spinner as the machine was hauled forward, serving to break down the soil.
e. Cricket. A spin bowler.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler
slow bowler1823
fast bowler1828
bias bowler1854
round-arm1858
demon bowler1861
left-hander1864
chucker1882
lobster1889
slow1895
leg-breaker1904
speed merchant1913
leg-spinner1920
spin bowler1920
off-spinner1924
quickie1934
tweaker1935
swerve-bowler1944
pace bowler1947
seam bowler1948
spinner1951
seamer1952
wrist-spinner1957
outswinger1958
swing bowler1958
quick1960
stock bowler1968
paceman1972
leggy1979
1951 People 3 June 7/5 Jim Sims, Middlesex spinner, tells me that he's never felt fitter than he does this season.
1963 A. Ross Australia 63 13 Since the departure of Laker and Wardle no class spinner of any kind had emerged.
1976 E. R. Dexter & C. Makins Testkill 78 The spinner, Flinders,..hit Ackroyd for two staggering sixes into the Mound Stand.
f. Surfing. (See quot. 1970.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer
kick-out1801
ride1883
side-slip1913
surf1917
slide1935
pull-out1957
quasimodo1960
head dip1962
nose-riding1962
rolling1962
spinner1962
stalling1962
toes over1962
cutback1963
Eskimo roll1964
re-entry1968
right1968
rollercoaster1968
barrel roll1971
hold-down1982
railing1983
cross-stepping1990
cross-step1994
turtle roll2001
1962 Surfer Dec.–Jan. 52/2 (advt.) One beautiful turn can't make a good movie, but…1286 beautiful turns, nose rides, spinners..can.
1968 Surfer Jan. 73/2 He showed them skeg-first takeoffs, spinners.
1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 31 Another popular hot dogging stunt is the spinner, in which the surfer turns himself in a full circle on the board, preferably while he is on the nose.
8. Something which moves rapidly.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [noun] > one who or that which moves swiftly
goera1586
fast-goera1628
seven-league boots1707
flyer1795
careerer1844
racehorse1854
pacer1878
spinner1881
running mate1891
wind-splitter1893
speedster1927
swiftie1945
fastie1983
1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/1 These crank and nimble spinners [i.e. racing yachts] give you no chance of looking about.
9. A workman who ‘spins’ metal plate.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker who coats or plates
platerer1664
plater1719
spinner1884
metallizer1958
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 24 Jan. 3/3 Britannia-metal Spinners.—Wanted a Man, who can Spin and Make Up.
10. Aeronautics. A metal fairing that is attached to and revolves with the propeller boss of an aircraft in order to streamline it.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > means of propulsion > [noun] > aircraft engine > propeller > parts of propeller
blade1907
boss1916
nosepiece1918
spinner1918
nose cap1919
1918 Flight 11 July 767/2 The airscrew..had its boss enclosed in the usual ‘spinner’.
1927 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 9/5 It appears that Flight-Lieut. Kinkead came down because the spinner, a metal fitting streamlining the propeller boss, came off.
1928 V. Pagé Mod. Aircraft 481 Spinner, a fairing of approximately conical or paraboloidal form, which is fixed coaxially with the propeller boss and revolves with the propeller.
1944 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 287 Peter looked at..the starboard engine cowling, and the spinner revolving at high speed, yet so perfectly made that it seemed to be a motionless dome.
1969 K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 159/1 The 2-blade propeller had a shallow, bowl-shaped spinner similar to that fitted to the Bristol M.1C.
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spinner magnetometer n. a magnetometer used to measure the remanent magnetism of rocks, baked clay, etc., in which a sample is spun between coils and induces in them a current dependent on the strength and direction of the magnetic field; see also spinning magnetometer n. at spinning n. Compounds 2.
1955 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 60 332 Spinner magnetometer. This magnetometer is a further development of the type first pioneered by Johnson.
1963 Jrnl. Sci. Instruments 40 162/1 The sensitivity of the spinner magnetometer is proportional to the speed at which the specimen is rotated.
1973 Nature 4 May 28/2 The remanent magnetizations were measured with a spinner magnetometer.
Draft additions 1993
A device or machine consisting of a rotating drum which acts as a centrifuge, esp. to remove excess liquid from its contents; spec. = spin dryer n.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > making dry > drying by specific method > specific device
hydro-extractor1851
exsiccator1864
salamander1873
dehumidifier1921
spin dryer1939
spinner1961
1961 Guardian 22 Mar. 8/3 A built-in spin-rinse percolating downwards through the clothes to give an effective rinse, hitherto lacking in the conventional spinner.
1963 A. J. Hall Textile Sci. vi. 282 Detergent liquor..has to be removed in successive stages of mangling (or by hydro-extraction using a ‘spinner’ or centrifuge).
1971 Which? Mar. 81/1 We also bought the Hoover Twosome—a single tub washer with a spinner which can be bought separately and clipped on.
1981 M. Clark & P. Swaine Home Managem. x. 242 Some physical action is still required..in lifting the washing from the wash tub into the spinner.
1985 Chicago Tribune 19 Sept. vii. 6/2 Bloomstrand suggests using a salad spinner for washing and drying lettuce.
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