Definitions
An eight-legged arachnid that often spins silk webs to catch prey.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.”
“2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer4 curated clues
01“Eight-legged web maker”6 letters
02“Web builder”6 letters
03“Web-spinning creature”6 letters
04“Eight-legged arachnid”6 letters
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