any member of an order of usu small invertebrate animals with eight legs, and two or more pairs of spinnerets (specialized organs; see spinneret) for spinning threads of silk that they use to make cocoons for their eggs, nests for themselves, or webs for entangling their prey: order Araneae
any of various devices consisting of a frame or skeleton with radiating arms or spokes
Brit a bundle of elastic straps with hooks, used to attach a load to a bicycle or motor vehicle
a support for a snooker cue that is raised on legs to enables the player to hit the ball from above when other balls are in the way
[Old English spīthra from spinnan spin1]