bespin

B3E1S1P3I1N1

verb

To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over.

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Meanings

verbbespin (third-person singular simple present bespins, present participle bespinning, simple past and past participle bespun)

present singular third person bespins · participle present bespinning · participle past bespun · past bespun

  1. 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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Chicago

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