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Definition of spinning
: a method of fishing in which a lure is cast by use of a light flexible rod, a spinning reel, and a light line
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The barn is dedicated to the history of farming in Fairfield and is filled with vintage farm implements such as a plow, a harrow, a hay rake, a cultivator, a milking stool and a spinning-barrel butter churn.
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In truth the region is on a never-ending roundabout of unfulfilled promises and bureaucratic wheel-spinning.
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Faster spinning, but fainter, stars have longer cycles.
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Mustangs with the new-for-2018 optional 12-inch digital gauge cluster additionally can show a graphic of a spinning and smoking tire that displays when line lock is engaged.
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The spinning dynamo is just one half of the equation, however.
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Alek Krautmann of the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana, said Thursday's pattern would likely be much like Wednesday's: Bands of intermittent, sometimes heavy rain spinning onto the coast.
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Alek Krautmann of the National Weather Service in Slidell, Louisiana, said Thursday's pattern would likely be much like Wednesday's: Bands of intermittent, sometimes heavy rain spinning onto the coast.
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The Wench art car adorned with the frame of a blimp follows people with butterfly wings, then comes a Pac-Man color-changing LED ghost and then the Boombox art car, complete with a DJ spinning where a tape deck would be.
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First Known Use of spinning
1855
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