spider

Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

(Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

(Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.

(slang) A spindly person.

(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

(snooker, billiards) 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.

(cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer

(cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.

(slang, uncountable) Heroin.

(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.

(fly fishing, England) a soft-hackle fly

(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard

(mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree

(obsolete) A type of light phaeton.

(film) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.