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ˈyarn-spinner
[f. yarn n. + spinner.]
1. A workman who spins yarn.
1813Examiner 1 Mar. 137/2 T. Kemp, Knaresborough, yarn-spinner. 1895Daily News 10 May 9/3 Yarn spinners are..very busy on old orders.
2. One who ‘spins a yarn’; a story-teller. colloq.
1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys xxvi, ‘Captain Vorse, we want a yarn—a real sailor's yarn!’..‘Oh, I'm no yarn-spinner’, said the young captain, evasively. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 323/2 The story was ‘improved’ by the marine yarn-spinners of that port.
So ˈyarn-spinning.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Yarn-spinning, a figurative expression for telling a story. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 731/1 These inventions are at the foundation of all modern systems of yarn-spinning. |