spinner
Someone who or something that spins.
Other meanings
Someone who spins yarn from loose fiber.
A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
Synonyms
- thread maker
Related words
- cytospinner
- electrospinner
- spinnerbait
- spinnerette
- webspinner
- yarnspinner
- potato spinner
- wheel spinner
- cotton-spinner
- fidget spinner
- finger spinner
- gin spinner
Word history
From Middle English "spynnere".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “spinner” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.