Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or an insect which spins silk.
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Examples
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But all these, as you know, are turned to account by the silk-spinner, and worked up into stockings, sewing-silk, and handkerchiefs.
Jacques Bonneval Anne Manning 1843
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