spinner

Meaning

Noun

• Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
• A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
• A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
• The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
• Primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
• An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
• A spin bowler.
• A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
• An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
• The Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
• The dolphin Stenella longirostris.
• A spinneret.
• A spider.
• A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
• A spin doctor.
• A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.

Origin

• From Middle English spynner; equivalent to spin + -er.