A Quick and Simple Dictionary

spider

1. Noun.  Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order ''Araneae'', most of which spin webs to catch prey.
2. Noun.  (internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
3. Noun.  (chiefly, Australia) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
4. Noun.  (slang) A spindly person.
5. Noun.  (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
6. Noun.  (context, snooker) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
7. Noun.  (cookware) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open hearth cookery. They were generally called spiders both in England and in America.
8. Noun.  A part of a crank, which the chainrings are attached.
9. Noun.  (slang) Heroin (street drug).
10. Noun.  (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
11. Verb.  (internet, of a computer program) to follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.