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spider's web

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Noun1.spider's webspider's web - a web resembling the webs spun by spiders
spider web
entanglement, web - an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
2.spider's web - a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey
spider web
cobweb - a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web
funnel web - a funnel-shaped spider web; the funnel-web spider perches in the center of the web
orb web - a circular spider web
sheet web - an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks
web - an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"


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At tide-time you would see one of the loaded ships with battened- down hatches drop out of the ranks and float in the clear space of the dock, held by lines dark and slender, like the first threads of a spider's web, extending from her bows and her quarters to the mooring-posts on shore.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
He seems to me to be possessed by some power which is using him for its own ends, and in whose hold he is as helpless as a fly in a spider's web.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
-- My gay butterfly is entangled in a spider's web then.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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