A spider is an eight-legged creature that spins webs to catch its food.
You might think of a spider as something creepy and scary, but in everyday life, we often use the word "spider" in more neutral or even affectionate ways. For example, you might say "I saw a big spider crawling across my kitchen floor this morning" - here, the focus is on the unexpected appearance of the creature rather than its potential danger. Or, if you're playing with a child who's afraid of spiders, you might draw a picture of one and say "look, it's just a little spider!" - in this case, the emphasis is on reassurance and friendship rather than fear.
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 float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
Example: 2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.
An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
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; a bridge.
A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
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 (street drug).
Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
(fly fishing) a soft-hackle fly
The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
A spider graph or spider tree
A type of light phaeton.
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To move like a spider.
To cover a surface like a cobweb.
(of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
Example: The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.
