spinster

1. n. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. Source: opted

2. n. A man who spins. Source: opted

3. n. An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. Source: opted

4. n. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. Source: opted

5. n. an elderly unmarried woman Source: wordnet

6. n. someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) Source: wordnet

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.] Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

9. n:100 n. an elderly unmarried woman Source: ecdict

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