spider
/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/ noun B1- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- A spindly person.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- Heroin.
Plural spiders
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The bottle was covered with spiders’ webs, and all the other signs which indicate the age of wine more truly than do wrinkles on a man’s face.
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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