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spinner
[spin-er]
noun
a person or thing that spins.
Angling.a lure, as a spoon bait, that revolves in the water in trolling and casting.
Also called spinner play.Football.a play in which the player carrying the ball twirls about, to deceive the other team as to where the player intends to hit the line.
Aeronautics.a streamlined fairing over a propeller hub.
British Informal.nightjar.
Slang.a disc jockey.
spinner
/ ˈɪə /
noun
a person or thing that spins
informala spin doctor
cricket
a ball that is bowled with a spinning motion
a bowler who specializes in bowling such balls
a streamlined fairing that fits over and revolves with the hub of an aircraft propeller
a fishing lure with a fin or wing that revolves when drawn through the water
an angler's name for the mature adult form (imago) of various flies, especially the mayflies Compare dun 2
Other 51Թ Forms
- underspinner noun
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
Significant seam movement for Akash Deep helped him bowl Brook while the occasional ball has turned for the spinners and others kept low to the quicks.
Though spinner Jadeja was tidy, the seamers leaked boundaries and even the great Bumrah did not quite reach the standard he set on Saturday, though that was a very high bar.
Eighteen months ago, Shoaib Bashir arrived in India as a relative unknown, the fourth choice of four England spinners, spotted by Ben Stokes in a clip on X.
"There's no desire to get ahead of ourselves," said the former New Zealand spinner.
From there, Sciver-Brunt wanted the game done in a hurry as she took down the bowlers, clubbing the spinners efficiently down the ground as she struck nine fours in her destructive knock.
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