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spinner

(spɪnəʳ)
Word forms: plural spinners
1. countable noun
A spinner is a cricketer who makes the ball spin when he or she bowls it so that it changesdirection when it hits the ground or the bat.
2. countable noun
A spinner is a person who makes thread by spinning.

spinner in British English

(ˈspɪnə)
noun
1. 
a person or thing that spins
2.  informal
a spin doctor
3.  cricket
a. 
a ball that is bowled with a spinning motion
b. 
a bowler who specializes in bowling such balls
4. 
a streamlined fairing that fits over and revolves with the hub of an aircraft propeller
5. 
a fishing lure with a fin or wing that revolves when drawn through the water
6. 
an angler's name for the mature adult form (imago) of various flies, esp the mayflies
Compare dun2 (sense 3)

spinner in American English

(ˈspɪnər)
noun
a person or thing that spins
; specif.,
a. 
a fishing lure with attached blades that revolve or flutter when drawn through the water; also, any of these blades
b. 
a domelike cap that fits over the hub of an airplane propeller and rotates with it

Examples of 'spinner' in a sentence
spinner

There are good young spinners around but their opportunities are often limited.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Easily the best second spinner in the world.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In our domestic game we are not seeing a long line of spinners and fast bowlers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
An extra seam bowler or two spinners?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Where are all the young wrist spinners with surfer haircuts that seemed certain to queue to replace their hero?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Who will the second spinner be?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We have two very good spinners of our own, so it will be a good game.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The thumb on the spinner's bowling hand was placed in ice and strapped.
The Sun (2010)
In addition, thirty thousand women worked as cotton spinners and cleaners.
Linda Colley The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007)
After that, it was mainly the spinners doing the bowling.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He became a true Test match spinner in the second innings.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Sure, the pitch was tricky and helped both seam bowlers and spinners.
The Sun (2010)
Sometimes we bring on one leg spinner to replace another, much to the surprise of our opponents.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Big bats and the Twenty20 format have helped batsmen prey on any young spinner not on his mettle.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Decent leg spinners do not come around often; leg spinners who can bat appear once in a blue moon.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
That's what good spinners do.
The Sun (2015)
That leaves the second spinner.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
When an exciting young leg spinner appears on the English landscape, heads are easily turned.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
If it does get warm and does spin a little bit, we've got the option with the same balanced side and a good spinner too.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)

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