Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Spinner \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. (Zo["o]l.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar
      noise it makes when darting through the air.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) 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.