Meaning of फिरकी in English

To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material.
To draw out tediously; to form by a slow process, or by degrees; to extend to a great length; -- with out; as, to spin out large volumes on a subject.
To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness.
To cause to turn round rapidly; to whirl; to twirl; as, to spin a top.
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, or the like) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; -- said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To practice spinning; to work at drawing and twisting threads; to make yarn or thread from fiber; as, the woman knows how to spin; a machine or jenny spins with great exactness.
To move round rapidly; to whirl; to revolve, as a top or a spindle, about its axis.
To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein.
To move swifty; as, to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
The act of spinning; as, the spin of a top; a spin a bicycle.
Velocity of rotation about some specified axis.
Alt. of Spinelle
Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
A spinny.
Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.
A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.
One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.
Same as Spinny.
A woman who spins.