Thesaurus: spinster

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1. n. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
2. n. A man who spins.
3. n. An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
4. n. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
5. n. an elderly unmarried woman
6. n. someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
7. 1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. She spake to spinster to spin it out. Piers Plowman. The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. Shak. 2. A man who spins. [Obs.] Shak. 3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. Coke. 4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
8. An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as atitle, or addition to the surname.If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. Coke.
9. n:100 n. an elderly unmarried woman