Spinner

(noun.) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water.

(noun.) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game.

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

乔治录入

• The mule spinner shown in Fig. 287 is a good modern example of this machine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In most parts of Scotland, she is a good spinner who can earn twentypence a-week. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The rovings of cotton went under a bar-clasp that took the place of the spinner’s finger and thumb. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This bar-clasp could be moved backward and forward on a rod as the spinner’s hand would do when stretching the thread and winding it on. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I held the taut line and felt the faint pulsing of the spinner revolving while I looked at the dark November water of the lake and the deserted shore. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The diligent spinner has a large shift; and now I have a sheep and a cow, everybody bids me good-morrow. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Following these important inventions came the mule spinner. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Far more important historically were the experiments and ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), a Manchester cotton-spinner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• This machine could do the work of many spinners, and in a much shorter time. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• None but spinners were allowed within the circle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The influence of all the Lancashire cotton-spinners was aligned against his claims. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Half-a-dozen wool-combers, perhaps, are necessary to keep a thousand spinners and weavers at work. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the same number of spinners or weavers will every year produce the same, or very nearly the same, quantity of linen and woollen cloth. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This old dried-up reservoir is occupied by a few ghostly silk-spinners now, and one of them showed me a cross cut high up in one of the pillars. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Realizing the hostility to any improvement on the part of the cotton-spinners, he gave out that he was engaged in building a machine to solve the world-old problem of perpetual motion. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He traveled much through South Lancashire and Cheshire, and there he came in daily contact with the cotton-spinners. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But the spinners did not take kindly to this improvement. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The employer of the spinners would require an additional five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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