spinning

The process of making fibrous material into yarn or thread.

The act of fishing with a light rod and a reel having a bail or similar device that guides the line around a stationary spool and that can be disengaged to let the line run freely, as when casting.

The act of one who spins.

The process of giving shape to vessels of thin metal by means of a turning-lathe.

In angling, fishing with a spinner. See spinner, 1 .

The operation of running off a part of the water on the top of the charge in an amalgamating-mill.

The operation of molding metals such as silver, etc., while they are rapidly revolving (‘spinning’), in a manner similar to the molding of wet clay, into pitchers, vases, etc.

a. & n. from spin.

one of the glands which form the material for spinning the silk of silkworms and other larvæ.

formerly a common name for a house of correction in England, the women confined therein being employed in spinning.