spinstry
English
Noun
spinstry (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The business of one who spins; spinning (of yarn)
- 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
- What new Decency then can be added to this by your spinstry?
References
- “spinstry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.