yarn-spinnern.
/ˈjɑːnˌspɪnə/, U.S. /ˈjɑrnˌspɪnər/ 1. A workman who spins yarn.
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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
1813 Examiner 1 Mar. 137/2 T. Kemp, Knaresborough, yarn-spinner.
1895 Daily News 10 May 9/3 Yarn spinners are..very busy on old orders.
2. One who ‘spins a yarn’; a story-teller. colloquial.
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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
1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi ‘Captain Vorse, we want a yarn—a real sailor's yarn!’..‘Oh, I'm no yarn-spinner’, said the young captain, evasively.
1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 323/2 The story was ‘improved’ by the marine yarn-spinners of that port.
Derivatives
ˈyarn-spinning n.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling
taling1382
storyingc1449
narrationc1450
tale-telling1556
storytelling1681
narrative1843
yarn-spinning1867
narrativity1971
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Yarn-spinning, a figurative expression for telling a story.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 731/1 These inventions are at the foundation of all modern systems of yarn-spinning.
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