n. 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spider. “Long-legged spinners.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) A spinneret. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders. [ 1913 Webster ]