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cobweb

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cob·web  (kbwb)
n.
1.
a. The web spun by a spider to catch its prey.
b. A single thread spun by a spider.
2. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
3. An intricate plot; a snare: caught in a cobweb of espionage and intrigue.
4. cobwebs Confusion; disorder: cobwebs on the brain.
tr.v. cob·webbed, cob·web·bing, cob·webs
To cover with or as if with cobwebs.

[Middle English coppeweb : coppe, spider (short for attercoppe, from Old English ttercoppe : tor, poison + copp, head) + web, web; see web.]

cobwebby adj.

cobweb
Noun
1. a web spun by certain spiders
2. a single thread of such a web [Old English (ātor)coppe spider]
cobwebbed adj
cobwebby adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cobweb - a fabric so delicate and transparent as to resemble a web of a spider
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"
2.cobwebcobweb - filaments from a web that was spun by a spider
fibril, filament, strand - a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
3.cobweb - a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
spider web, spider's web - a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey
Translations
Spanish cobweb [ˈkɔbwɛb] ntelaraña
French cobweb [ˈkɔbwɛb] ntoile f d'araignée
German cobweb [ˈkɔbwɛb] nSpinnennetz nt
Italian cobweb [ˈkɔbwɛb] nragnatela

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But shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider.
Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants, -- a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.
You think your power's infinite as your malice, And would do all your anger prompts you to; But you must wait occasions, and obey them: Sail in an egg-shell, make a straw your mast, A cobweb all your cloth, and pass unseen, Till you have 'scaped the rocks that are about you.
 
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