(transitive) To make into a long tapered shape. / (intransitive) To take on a long tapered shape. / (transitive) To impale on a device for holding paper documents.

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in finger spin

(cricket) A bowler who specializes in wrist spin

(sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

Covered in spines or thorns / Troublesome; difficult or vexing / Like a spine in shape; slender.

Archaic form of spinny.

(cricket) A bowler who bowls off spin. / (cricket) An off cutter.

(cricket) A bowler who bowls leg spin.

(anatomy) A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system. It extends from the brain stem down through the spine, with nerves branching off to various parts of the body.

Of or pertaining to the spinal cord. / (zoology) (of a frog or other experimental animal) Having a pithed brain, but an intact surgically isolated spinal cord.