spider

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Meaning

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
4. (obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
5. (slang) A spindly person.
6. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
7. 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.
8. A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
9. 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
10. A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
11. (slang) Heroin.
12. Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
13. 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.
14. A soft-hackle fly.
15. The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
16. A spider graph or spider tree.
17. (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
18. A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
19. A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.

spider

arachnid

wanderer

spider web

spider’s web

chicken

dove

hen

rooster

Tharaphosidae

spinner

caltrop

caltrop chain

trivet

griddle

frying-pan

crawler

Standard and Poor’s depository receipt

black widow

daddy longlegs

cathead

sprocket

small spider

insect

gridiron

frying pan

frypan

pan

skillet

stewing pan

stewpan

hands

clock

watch

arachno

spider-type lug wrench

spider-type wheel brace

spider-type wheel wrench

scorpion

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈspaɪ̯də/

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.