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Construct or form a web, as if by weaving
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webbing
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Webbing \Web"bing\, n. A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had grenades strapped to his chest with military webbing . ▪ His fingers opened, the knife bounced on the trampoline webbing and fell through into the sea. ▪ The base of each pole is then inserted into brass eyelets on nylon ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
thumb|2 inch (50 mm) Nylon webbing as used in auto racing harnesses Webbing is a strong fabric woven as a flat strip or tube of varying width and fibres often used in place of rope . It is a versatile component used in climbing , slacklining , furniture ...
Usage examples of webbing.
These borers often attack at a fork and their tunnel entrances are covered with a coating of droppings held together with silk webbing.
Gravity forces pressed them hard against the webbing of their cots, as the lifeship was hurled away from its mother ship, into space.
Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.
Micki held her fast, gripping her arms as another came and levered up the basket, the basket where the Adam-thing waited, its face shrouded in webbing, eyes lizard-dull or bright as flaring stars as they passed between bars of shadow.
Matthew Maule picked up one of the lightweight poolside chairs, a folding construction of thin tubular metal and plastic webbing, and carried it back with him into the sheltered aisle behind the row of tall live plants.
Immediately the symbiont cycle extended tendrils and wrapped them around her feet and calves, webbing her to the bike.
With thin white fingers he dug a baseball from the webbing and began to thuck it into the glove.
He regarded the fragile overturned wrist and the starkly outlined webbing of blue veins.
It was as long as the black webbing of the pouch and three times as wide.
And the moaning sound that still filled the auditorium must be the moorage webbing, twisting beneath the temp.
The pistolet sailed down the corridor, where it slammed into a cluster of webbing.
One night Quath passed a gang of miners and prospectors as she returned alone to the communal webbing, down the inert gray arterial corridors.
Wrinkled paws ended in powerful clawed fingers that dug at the earth, and its stubby, quilled tail whipped back and forth in a frantic effort to snap the lines of webbing that had wrapped about it.
I thought my departure would go unnoticed but when I got my summons and prepared to leave I found, tucked in the webbing Of my pack, an envelope filled with the precious coupons with which we drew our ration of cigarettes in those days.
The silky webbing that held the spheres together also sealed the connection between sailboat and worldship, keeping the air inside.