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. Zool.
A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
4. Zool.
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.
© Webster 1913.