Anglo-Indian. [Abbreviation of SPINSTER.] An unmarried lady.
1872. ‘Aliph Cheem’ (Yeldham), Lays of Ind (1876), 193. I’m going to rhyme about A most unhappy spin. Ibid., 200. O spins.! be warned ere yet too late.
1888. Mrs. Croker, Diana Barrington, xxiii. There were all the Gurrumpore spins in their beautiful new frocks!
