spider -
predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
arachnid,
arachnoid air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs
araneus cavaticus,
barn spider an orange and tan spider with darkly banded legs that spins an orb web daily; "the barn spider was made famous in E. B. White's book `Charlotte's Web'"
spider -
a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
spider -
A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
spider -
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.
spider -
A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
spider -
A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
spider -
Part of a resonatorinstrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
Verb
spider -
To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
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spider Any predatory silk-producing arachnid of the order Araneae, having four pairs of legs and a rounded unsegmented body consisting of abdomen and cephalothorax.
spider A type of skimmer in the form of a wire mesh basket attached to a handle, used to remove food from a hot liquid or skim off foam from a broth.
