spinner

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that spins.
• noun A fishing lure that rotates rapidly.
• noun A fairing fitted over the hub of the propeller in some aircraft.
• noun Games A device consisting of a dial and an arrow that is spun to indicate the next move in some board games.
• noun A device for cleaning lettuce and other vegetables, consisting of a perforated bowl or container that can be spun to drive off rinse water.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who or that which spins, in any sense; one skilled in spinning.
• noun A spider; especially, a spinning-spider.
• noun See the quotation.
• noun A spinneret.
• noun The night-jar or night-churr, Caprimulgus europæus: from its cries, which may be likened to the noise of a spinning-wheel. See cut under night-jar. Also wheel-bird. Compare reeler in like use for another bird.
• noun A kind of boat.
• noun A quality of leaf suitable for roll tobacco. See spinning-leaf tobacco.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
• noun A spider.
• noun (Zoöl.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
• noun (Zoöl.) A spinneret.
• noun a machine for spinning, in which the twist, given to the yarn by a revolving bobbin, is regulated by the drag of a small metal loop which slides around a ring encircling the bobbin, instead of by a throstle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
• noun A conical cover at the center of some aircraft propellers.
• noun obsolete The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
• noun slang, film Used primarily in the adult film industry, an actress or prostitute with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
• noun computing, graphical user interface An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
• noun cricket A spin bowler.
• noun fishing A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
• noun An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
• noun A goatsucker.
• noun A spinneret.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
• noun someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
• noun fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water