单词	spinner
释义	spinner From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Material & textiles, Cricket, Other sportsspinnerspin‧ner /ˈspɪnə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  1 TIMsomeone whose job is to make thread by twisting cotton, wool etc2 DSCa bowler in a game of cricket who throws the ball with a spinning action3DSOa thing used for catching fish that spins when pulled through the water → money-spinnerExamples from the Corpusspinner• He became a spinner in a Preston cotton-mill, but disliked the restricted life and left at the age of seventeen.• Another bowler with similar hopes is left-arm spinner Paul Booth.• These mule spinners, assisted by women and children, were an elite group in the early textile mills.• Aberystwyth's spinners did the damage with second teamer Alun Davies taking four-10 and Anthony Evans 3-28.• The spinner dipped under the water.• One aircraft was fitted with a R-1340 geared engine and a three-bladed constant speed propeller with spinner.
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