Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Spinster \Spin"ster\, n. [Spin + -ster.]
1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
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She spake to spinster to spin it out. --Piers
Plowman.
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The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. --Shak.
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2. A man who spins. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal
proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
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If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate
the writ. --Coke.
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4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from
being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spinster
n 1: an elderly unmarried woman [syn: {spinster}, {old maid}]
2: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn:
{spinner}, {spinster}, {thread maker}]
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