6. (Mech.) 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.
To spin a yarn (Naut.), to tell a story, esp. a long or fabulous tale. — To spin hay (Mil.), to twist it
into ropes for convenient carriage on an expedition. — To spin street yarn, to gad about gossiping.
[Collog.]
Spin
(Spin) v. i.
1. 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.
They neither know to spin, nor care to toll.
Prior. 2. To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
Round about him spun the landscape,
Sky and forest reeled together.
Longfellow.
With a whirligig of jubilant mosquitoes spinning about each head.
G. W. Cable. 3. To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein. Shak.
4. To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc. [Colloq.]
Spin
(Spin), n.
1. The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle. [Colloq.]
2. (Kinematics) Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
