[SPINNING vbl. sb.]

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  1.  A room or building set apart for the purpose of spinning.

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1463.  Bury Wills (Camden), 20. Ye dore yt is out of ye parlour into ye spynnyng hous. Ibid. The drawt chambyr above ye spynnyng hous.

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1756.  Nugent, Gr. Tour, Italy, III. 113. The most remarkable thing … is its spinning-house for a manufacture of silk.

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1772.  Hartford Merc. Suppl., 18 Sept., 4/3. A Dressing Shop, a long spinning and Weaving House.

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  2.  (See quots. and cf. SPIN-HOUSE.)

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1803.  Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, 126. Spinning House, an ergastulum; a house of labour and correction; a prison for prostitutes under the jurisdiction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors.

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1840.  Life J. Howard, in Chivalry & Charity, 150. A spinning house, or Bridewell for women, at Amsterdam.

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1874.  Slang Dict., 304. Spinning-house, the place in Cambridge where street-walkers are locked up, if found out after a certain time at night.

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1897.  T. D. Atkinson, Cambridge, 94. In 1790 … the Gaol was removed to a new building at the back of the Spinning House.

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