spider
(arthropod) Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order (order), most of which spin webs to catch prey.
(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
(New Zealand) A float {{gloss|drink}} made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
(obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
(slang) A spindly person.
(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
(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.
(frying pan) (dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
(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
(crank part) (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
Heroin.
(music) 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.
() A soft-hackle fly.
(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
(maths) A spider graph or spider tree.
(obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
(photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
(lawn bowls) 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.
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.