spider

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

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.

A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

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.

A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

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

An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

A spindly person.

To move like a spider.

A year later she returned to El Cap and spidered up the wall again — this time in 23 hours.

They saved the hall though the facing and part of the roof had to be torn out and replaced, men spidered over the building to repair it before Coaker's arrival.

To cover a surface like a cobweb.

High walls surrounded it on all sides, each one covered with the skeletal stems of climbing plants that spidered across the stones, and the ground was cobbled between patches of frozen grass.

Large cracks spidered across the mask's glass where the nozzle had hit.

To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.

The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.