subs. (old).—A distiller; a dealer in spirituous liquors. Cf., ALE-SPINNER.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1827. P. EGAN, Anecdotes of the Turf, p. 179. Just as she was about to toddle to the GIN-SPINNER’S for the ould folk and lisp out for a quartern of Max.
1888. F. GREEN, in Notes and Queries, 7 S., vi., 153. I have always understood that a GIN SPINNER is a distiller who makes gin, but could never find out why so called.
