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Definition of Spinnings
1. spinning [n] - See also: spinning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spinnings
Literary usage of Spinnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"The next operation is to form the he%ds, or head-spinnings, as they are termed :
this is done by a spinning wheel. One piece of wire ia with rapidity wound ..."
2. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1900)
"The exact time at whicli this change took place could not be determined, and two
spinnings were therefore rejected. During the remainder of the evening the ..."
3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1897)
"The greatest number of spinnings seemed to be from the cells near the polar
globules, and this region of the egg, it will be remembered, was the first to ..."
4. A History of Van Buren County, Michigan: A Narrative Account of Its by Oran W. Rowland (1912)
"Olney and Spinnings came the next spring, arriving in Hartford on the 14th day
of March, ... Spinnings lived with Olney. He died on the 2d day of May, 1841, ..."
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