spider
/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ verb C2- To move like a spider.
- To cover a surface like a cobweb.
- To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information. · The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
He/she/it spiders · Past spidered · Past participle spidered · -ing form spidering
Verb forms
- Base form
- spider
- He/she/it
- spiders
- Past
- spidered
- Past participle
- spidered
- -ing form
- spidering
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Often it was only the smallest trace, Watson, the faintest indication, and yet it was enough to tell me that the great malignant brain was there, as the gentlest tremors of the edges of the web remind one of the foul spider which lurks in the centre.
It is a most tremendous monster, like a great spider, with a body as big as an elephant and legs as long as a tree trunk.
It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly.
It would not rest him to lie down, and he could not close his eyes; so he remained all night staring at a little spider which was weaving its web in a corner of the room, just as if it were not one of the most wonderful rooms in the world.
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