spider
Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
Noun 4 meanings
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).
“2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.”
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To move like a spider.
To cover a surface like a cobweb.
To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
“The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English spithre, spider, 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.
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SPIDER at a glance
SPIDER has 6 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (S 1 + P 3 + I 1 + D 2 + E 1 + R 1) and 10 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,629 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with spider
All rhymes- UNDER6
- ORDER6
- CONSIDER11
- LEADER7
- WONDER10
- OLDER6
- MURDER9
- BORDER9
- GENDER8
- HARDER10
- COMMANDER16
- SHOULDER12
One letter away
- SLIDER7
- SPICER10
- SNIDER7
- SPADER9
- SPIKER12
- SPIDES9
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