s 1 p 3 i 1 n 1 s 1 t 1 e 1 r 1
8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an elderly unmarried woman
noun someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
originFrom Middle English spynnestere (“woman who spins fibre”), from c. 1350; equivalent to spin + -ster. The semantic development is from a historical notion of unmarried women spinning thread for a living.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- pterins 9
- sitreps 9
- snipers 9
- spinets 9
- spriest 9
- sprints 9
- sprites 9
- stirpes 9