a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
A tiny, yellow feather is caught in a spider's web.
2. a spider's web of something
spiderweb in American English
(ˈspaidərˌweb)
transitive verbWord forms: -webbed, -webbing
to cover with a spider web or fine lines resembling a spider web
Word origin
[1890–95; v. use of spider web]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bootstrap, honky-tonk, masochism, pogey, wireless
Examples of 'spiderweb' in a sentence
spiderweb
Instead, he shut down the console and went through a narrow door that led to the spiderweb balcony running around the outside of the Dome.
Tepper, Sheri S. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Only the most hard-hearted reader will resist its spiderweb of injustices.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Big guy, apparently, with spiderweb tattoo on the back of his neck.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
One of my best friends there had a spiderweb tattooed on his face, right under his eye.