Spider

Quick meaning: Spider is a noun meaning Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

Meaning

Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

More Meanings

1. (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
3. (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
4. (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.
5. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
6. (slang) A spindly person.
7. (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

Example Sentences

2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.

In spider pan or deep skillet set over hot coals, quickly fry a few at a time in deep lard until brown.

Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.

2008, Corona Club (San Francisco, California), Corona Club Cook Book, page 202, Melt ½ the dry sugar in the spider, stirring with knife until all is melted.

Word Forms

• spiders
• spidering
• spidered

Synonyms for spider

Depending on context, synonyms include attercop, cop, crawler, bridge, brown, bujj.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include web, chandelier, daddy, immobilizer, wide, robot.

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