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Ring spinner

Spinner \Spin"ner\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

  2. A spider. ``Long-legged spinners.''
    --Shak.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.

  4. (Zo["o]l.) A spinneret.

    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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ring spinner

n. 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.

Usage examples of "ring spinner".

Finally, desperately, he took a job as a ring spinner in the Ely Falls Mill.