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(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.

📑 Synonyms: crawler

(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.

📑 Synonyms: bridge

(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.

📑 Synonyms: Thesaurus: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.