spi´der|like´

spi´der|like´
spi|der «SPY duhr», noun.
1. a) a small animal with eight legs and no wings. Spiders belong to the class of arachnids. Most kinds produce a silky thread for spinning webs to catch insects for food, and for making cocoons and nests. b) any one of various similar arachnids, such as a harvestman (daddy longlegs).
2. Figurative: »

He was one of the kind sports call a spider, All wiry arms and legs (Robert Frost).

3. a kind of frying pan, originally one with short legs.
4. U.S. a frame with three legs to support a pot or pan over a fire.
5. a device for pulverizing the soil, to be attached to a cultivator.
6. a highly flexible fiber ring which centers the voice coil of a loudspeaker.
╂[Middle English spither, unrecorded Old English spīthra < spinnan to spin]
–spi´der|like´, adjective.

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