spider

Meanings

Plural: spiders

Noun

• predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
• a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
• a skillet made of cast iron
• 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).
• An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
• A spindly person.
• A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
• 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.
• A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
• 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
• A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
• Heroin.
• 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.
• The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
• A spider graph or spider tree.
• A type of light phaeton.
• A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
• 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.

Verb

• 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.

Synonyms

attercop, Big H, boy, bridge, brown, brown sugar, bujj, cop, crawler, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog food, dope, H, heroin, horse, junk, muck, mud, ron, scag, smack, spider, sugar, wanderer, white lady, whiteboy, yam yam

Related Words

arachnid, spin, spindle