The kitchen counter formed a right angle with the back wall.

The ſtreine or kenning of the egge.

Pirate spiders (family Mimetidae) fall into this category and specialize in preying on web-building spiders, and the occasional free-ranging spider. […] This entices the owner of the web out of hiding, at which point the pirate spider will pin it down with the spines on its legs, and kill it with a fast-acting venom. Pirate spiders also feed on other spiders' eggs and on insects caught in their webs.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:monocyesis.