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Definition spider

Etymology

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English sp?þra (“spider”), from Proto-Germanic *spinþrô (“spider", literally, "spinner”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pen(h?)-, *(s)pn?h?- (“to spin thread, plait, weave, sew; to stretch”), compare Proto-Germanic *spinnan? (“to spin”). Cognate with Scots spider (“spider”), West Frisian spin (“spider”), Dutch spin (“spider”), German Spinne (“spider”), Danish spinder (“spinner, spider”), Swedish spindel (“spider”). More at spin. Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Noun

spider (plural spiders)

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
4. (Australia, New Zealand, 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. (snooker, billiards) 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.
8. (cooking, US, Britain, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
9. (cooking) 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 (street drug).
12. (music) 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. (fly fishing, England) a soft-hackle fly
15. (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
16. (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree

Verb

spider (third-person singular simple present spiders, present participle spidering, simple past and past participle spidered)

1. To move like a spider.
2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.
3. (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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