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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishspiþre,spydyr,spider,spiþer, fromOld Englishspīþra(“spider”), fromProto-West Germanic*spinþrijō, fromProto-Germanic*spinnaną(“to spin”). Mostly displacedattercop(“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

Aspider (sense 1).
Snookerspider (sense 7).
Spider skillet (sense 8).
Spider (sense 10) of a bicycle crank arm (on the right).

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Noun

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spider (countable anduncountable,pluralspiders)

  2. Any of various eight-legged, predatoryarthropods, of the orderAraneae, most of which spinwebs to catch prey.
    Synonyms:(obsolete except in dialects)attercop,(obsolete)cop
    • 1805,Songs for the Nursery, page23:
      Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a littlespider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
  3. (Internet) A program which follows links on theWorld Wide Web in order to gather information.
    Synonym:crawler
    • 2008, Alex Michael, Ben Salter,Marketing Through Search Optimization, Routledge,→ISBN,page xii:
      Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is thespider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
  4. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) Afloat(drink) made by mixingice-cream and asoda orfizzy drink (such aslemonade).
    • 2002, Katharine Gasparini,Cranberry and vanilla ice creamspider, recipe inCool Food,page 339.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
  6. (slang) A spindly person.
  7. (slang) A man who persistently approaches oraccosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
  9. (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support thecue when thecue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
    Synonym:bridge
  11. (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
    • 1846, Mary Hooker Cornelius,The Young Housekeeper's Friend,page 146, recipe 28 “To fry salt pork”:
      Cut slices and lay them in cold water in thespider; boil them up two or three minutes, then pour off the water and set thespider again on the coals and brown the slices on each side.
    • 2005, Marty Davidson,Grandma Grace's Southern Favorites, recipe for “strawberry coconuts”, Rutledge Hill Press,→ISBN, page 193:
      Inspider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.
    • 2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California),Corona Club Cook Book,page 202,
      Melt ½ the dry sugar in thespider, stirring with knife until all is melted.
  12. (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; aspider skimmer
    • 1996, City and Guilds of London Institute,Food preparation and cooking. Cookery units. Student guide., Stanley Thornes,→ISBN, unit 2ND5, element 2, page 157:
      If you are deep-frying your falafel, use aspider or basket to place them gently into the hot oil, which should be preheated to a temperature of 175°C (330°F).
    • 2008, Anna Kasabian, David Kasabian,The Wild Fish Cookbook, Creative Publishing International,→ISBN, page84:
      Consider investing in a frying basket or aspider for small amounts of fish. Aspider looks like a metal web and has a long handle and can lower and raise fish from the hot oil.
  14. (cycling) A part of acrank, to which thechainrings are attached.
  15. (slang, uncountable)Heroin.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:heroin
  16. (music) Part of aresonatorinstrument that transmits string vibrations from thebridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
  17. 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.
  18. (fly fishing, England) Asoft-hackle fly.
  19. (sports) The network ofwires separating the areas of adartboard.
  20. (mathematics) Aspider graph orspider tree.
  21. (obsolete) A type of lightphaeton.
    • 1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, inThe Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎[1], volume 4, number10, page298:
      I am also disappointed with the horses, having hardly seen a decent pair yet, while the traps and horses do not look smart and well groomed. There are a great many Americanspiders used. Have not seen a bullock in the yoke yet.
  22. (photography) Asupport for acameratripod, preventing it from sliding.
    • 1927, H. Mario Raimondo Souto,The Technique of the Motion Picture Camera, page64:
      Thespider is very useful for shooting in the studio or on locations with smooth floors where tripod legs tend to slide.
  23. (bowls) Acompetition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of thegreen, who all make onebowl towards the centraljack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.

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Translations

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arthropod
computer program
drink
slang: a spindly person
snooker, billiards

Verb

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spider (third-person singular simple presentspiders,present participlespidering,simple past and past participlespidered)

  1. (intransitive) To move like a spider.
    • 2001, Life Books,Life: The Greatest Adventures of All Time, Time Home Entertainment Incorporated,→ISBN:
      A year later she returned to El Cap andspidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours.
    • 2009, Michael Crummey,Galore: A novel, Doubleday Canada,→ISBN:
      They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, menspidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival.
    • 2012, David Gross,Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms, Wizards of the Coast,→ISBN:
      Briefly he considered letting go to glide along in Radu's wake as the assassinspidered up the wall.
  2. (intransitive) To cover a surface like acobweb.
    • 2011, Jenna Burtenshaw,Wintercraft: Blackwatch, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
      High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants thatspidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass.
    • 2011, MJ Ware,Super Zombie Juice Mega Bomb, MJA Ware,→ISBN:
      Large cracksspidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.
    • 2013, Mary Gentle,Rats and Gargoyles, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
      Mossspidered across the stone, fresh green. Seaweed sprouted bright yellows and ochres between the vast webs of fingers.
  3. (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on theWorld Wide Web in order to gather information.
    The online dictionary is regularlyspidered by search engines.

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French

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Noun

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spider m (pluralspiders)

  1. spyder

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishspider.

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Noun

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spider m (invariable)

  1. (computing)spider(Internet software)

References

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  1. ^spider inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^spider inDizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Middle English

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Noun

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spider

  1. Alternative form ofspiþre
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