1. A popular name in the north of the crane-fly or daddy-long-legs.
1817. Edinb. Even. Courant, 1 Sept. (Jam.). The worm which so much injured the oat crop this season is the progeny of the fly … with long legs and body, called jenny-spinners. It belongs to the order diptera, and the genus tipula.
1825. Brockett, Jenny-spinner, or Long-legg’d tyalyur.
1893. Northumbld. Gloss., Jenny-spinner … the insect called daddy-long-legs or Harry-long-legs.
2. A child’s teetotum.
1824. Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., Jennie Spinner, a toy.
1825. Brockett, Jinny-spinner, a play-thing among children.
3. One who spins with a jenny.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 871. The Cotton Lords claim the superiority for Arkwright, the jenny-spinner.
