spider web

or spider's web

noun

1. the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spider web¹

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

Like lifting weights or boxing in a dust and spider-web-infested concrete shed with a tin roof.

From The Daily Beast

The children at once ran away, and their father hung the spider-web over the door of the lodge.

From Project Gutenberg

Jim nodded and glanced up at the red spider web that was dotted clear to the eighteenth floor with black dots of workmen.

From Project Gutenberg

They can jump through an ordinary net as easily as a frog breaks a spider-web.

From Project Gutenberg

The spider-web itself, of course, was no reason for them to be alarmed.

From Project Gutenberg

If it wasn't for administerin' town business right I'd have got him a spider-web and let him sail away on it.

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