[1830–40; spin + -ery]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: ante, grid, isomerism, rococo, walkover-ery is a suffix of nouns denoting occupation, business, calling or condition, place orestablishment, goods or products, things collectively, qualities, actions, etc. Otherwords that use the affix -ery include: archery, bakery, fishery, trickery, witchery
Examples of 'spinnery' in a sentence
spinnery
The spinnery was built when the city was in the first blossom of the industrial revolution.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
After the war the communists pumped subsidies into the spinnery and a dozen other factories.