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spinster

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈspɪnstə/Part of speech nounSorted einprsstStarts with SEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)

Word origin

From Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living.

Used in a sentence

  • If […] a woman be named spinster, she may abate […]the same [writ].
  • Iola Boylen is Mama's longtime friend and neighbor, a spinster who lives with her never-seen domineering mother.
  • The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.

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