spinning house (plural spinning houses) (historical) A house of correction where delinquent women such as prostitutes were made to work at spinning....
fidget-spinning head-spinning money-spinning pen spinning ring spinning spinning frame spinning house spinning jenny spinning mule spinning rod spinning rust...
spicehouse spinning house spirit house spitalhouse spite house split the house sponging-house sponging house spookhouse sporting house spring house springhouse...
spinna. spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past...
where inmates, usually women, were forced to spin threads (historical, rare) a room or building used for spinning threads, not belonging to a penal or mental...
(precursor) Hi-NRG 1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64: Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had...
(“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread...
(historical) A toy (spinning top) similar to a dreidel. 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Tom-all-alone’s”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury...
also: housewife house-wife (plural house-wives) Archaic form of housewife. 1672, F. B., “To the Reader”, in The Office of the Good House-wife, with Necessary...