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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)