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Definition of Spinsters

Spinster
Spinster Spin"ster, n. [Spin + -ster.] 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. [Obs.] --Shak. 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. [Obs.]

Meaning of Spinsters from wikipedia

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- publisher Linda Hill, who purchased the Spinsters Ink in 2005. Hill also owns Bella Books and Beanpole Books. Spinsters Ink was founded by Brady and McDaniel...
- Bachelor and Spinsters Ball or Bloke's & Sheila's Ball events, known locally as B & S Balls or simply B&Ss, are hosted regularly in rural Australia. They...
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- although only two align with Spinsters' Rock. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spinster's Rock. Historic England. "Spinsters Rock (445766)". Research...
- Spinster is a 2019 Canadian film directed by Andrea Dorfman and written by Jennifer Deyell. The film premiered at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival and was...
- Maigret and the Spinster (other English-language title is Cécile is Dead; French: Cécile est morte) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon...
- membership each year. Spinsters of San Francisco was founded in 1929 as a sister organization to the Bachelors of San Francisco. Spinsters of San Francisco...
- Doña Rosita the Spinster (Spanish: Doña Rosita la soltera) is a period play by the 20th-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. It is subtitled...
- The Spinster's Secret is a 1946 mystery detective novel by Anthony Gilbert, the pen name of British writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. First published in London...