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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.
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Entry for 'Spin'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/spin.html.
 
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