See spinniken on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there.", "forms": [ { "form": "spinnikens", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spinniken (plural spinnikens)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "British English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 184:", "text": "[…] they all three compared notes on the several workhouses they had been at. One inclined to think that the workhouses in South Wales were the best. Another thought the Yorkshire 'spinnikens' were.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A workhouse." ], "id": "en-spinniken-en-noun-ahH7uoOW", "links": [ [ "workhouse", "workhouse" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse." ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete", "slang" ] } ], "word": "spinniken" }
{ "etymology_text": "From spinning ken, alluding to one form of work done there.", "forms": [ { "form": "spinnikens", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "spinniken (plural spinnikens)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English slang", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, page 184:", "text": "[…] they all three compared notes on the several workhouses they had been at. One inclined to think that the workhouses in South Wales were the best. Another thought the Yorkshire 'spinnikens' were.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A workhouse." ], "links": [ [ "workhouse", "workhouse" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, obsolete, slang) A workhouse." ], "tags": [ "UK", "obsolete", "slang" ] } ], "word": "spinniken" }
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