Spinster

Definition of Spinster

Spin´ster

n.	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.
	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.

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bachelor girl, feme sole, jenny, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, mule, old maid, silkworm, single girl, spider, spinner, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinstress, tabby, throstle, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin

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