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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bachelor girl, feme sole, jenny, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, mule, old maid, silkworm, single girl, spider, spinner, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinstress, tabby, throstle, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin, ,

Dictionary Results for spinster:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

spinster
    n 1: an elderly unmarried woman [syn: spinster, old maid]
    2: someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) [syn:
       spinner, spinster, thread maker]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Spinster \Spin"ster\, n. [Spin + -ster.]
   1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
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            She spake to spinster to spin it out. --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
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            The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. --Shak.
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   2. A man who spins. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. (Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal
      proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname.
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            If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate
            the writ.                             --Coke.
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   4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from
      being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

SPINSTER. An addition given, in legal writings, to a woman who never was 
married. Lovel. on Wills, 269.

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