Spin
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
(2): ( v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
(3): ( v. i.) To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
(4): ( v. t.) To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
(5): ( v. i.) To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
(6): ( v. t.) To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; - with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
(7): ( v. i.) To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
(8): ( v. t.) To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
(9): ( n.) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
(10): ( v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
(11): ( v. t.) To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; - said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
(12): ( v. t.) To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
King James Dictionary [2]
Spin, pret. and pp. spun. Span is not used. If the sense is to draw out or extend, this coincides in origin with span.
1. To draw out and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery as, to spin wool, cotton or flax to spin goats' hair. All the yarn which Penelope spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths. 2. To draw out tediously to form by a slow process of be degrees with out as, to spin out large volumes on a subject. 3. To extend to a great length as, to spin out a subject. 4. To draw out to protract to spend by delays as, to spin out the day in the idleness By one delay after another, they spin out their whole lives. 5. To whirl with a thread to turn or cause to whirl as, to spin a top. 6. To draw out from the stomach in a filament as, a spider spins a web.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to spin," is found in Matthew 6:28; Luke 12:27 , of the lilies of the field (see Lily).
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
(טָוָה, νήθω ). The notices of spinning in the Bible are confined to Exodus 35:25-26; Matthew 6:28; and Proverbs 31:19. The latter passage implies (according to the A.V.) the use of the same instruments which have been in vogue for hand spinning down to the present day, viz. the distaff and spindle. The distaff, however, appears to have been dispensed with, and the term (פֶּלֶךְ ) so rendered means the spindle (q.v.) itself, while that rendered "spindle" (בַּישׁוֹר ) represents the whirl (verticillus, Pliny, 37, 11) of the spindle, a button or circular rim which was affixed to it, and gave steadiness to its circular motion. The "whirl" of the Syrian women was made of amber in the time of Pliny (loc. cit.). The spindle was held perpendicularly in the one hand, while the other was employed in drawing out the thread. The process is exhibited in the Egyptian paintings (Wilkinson, Ancient Egypt. 2, 85). Spinning was the business of women, both among the Jews (Exodus loc. cit.) and for the most part among the Egyptians (Wilkinson, ibid. 2, 84). — Smith. Similar customs have prevailed in most modern nations; hence the word "spinster" for an unmarried female. (See Weave).
