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spinnet

spinnet is the alternative spelling of spinet.

Meaning of spinet

Noun (1)

spinet (plural spinets)

  1. A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
    • He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of...1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind

Noun (2)

spinet (plural spinets)

  1. (obsolete) A spinney.
    • The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp

Forms of spinnet

pluralspinnets

Questions about spinnet

What is spinnet the alternative spelling of?
Spinnet is the alternative spelling of spinet.

Words near spinnet in the dictionary

  1. spinners
  2. spinnerule
  3. spinnerules
  4. spinnery
  5. spinnest
  6. spinnet
  7. spinneth
  8. spinnets
  9. spinney
  10. spinneys
  11. spinnier

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