Spinster /(?)/

Spin·ster

Spinster

n.
  1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin.
    She spake to spinster to spin it out.
    — Piers Plowman.
    The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
  2. A man who spins. [Obs.]
  3. An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. (Law)
    If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ.
    — Coke.
  4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [Obs.]