Meanings
present singular third person bespins · participle present bespinning · participle past bespun · past bespun
- ambitransitiveTo spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over.
Here we still have much of the same authority of great texts bespun and sometimes swamped with glosses and notes, of lecturing that approximates dictation, and grammar which still remains, though dictionaries have come.
1916, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, Journal of genetic psychology
Origin
From be- + spin. Cognate with German bespinnen (“to spin over”).
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