Definitions
a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
Word origin
From Middle English copweb, coppeweb. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian). By surface analysis, cob (“spider”, obsolete) + web.
Used in a sentence
“[…] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.”
“A cobweb, night-spun, hung in an insidious circle from branch to branch, facing her. Early as it was, its first victim struggled in its gummy meshes.”
“blow the cobwebs away”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Spider strand”6 letters
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