Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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n. (alternative form of spiderweb English)
Usage examples of "spider-web".
Early in the morning they descended among the strongly scented spireas, the bedewed spider-webs quivering on the margins of the woods, down through the steep, warm forest into the valley of Pampambio where beside the yellow road bright yellow houses slept, bent forward and half dead, stunned by the summer days.
Within its frame, Kiyo again touched the gnome tendrils, drawing them out like fine spider-webs.
They hee-hawed and laughed, sputtered and chattered and babbled--a dozen cracked voices assassinated "Malaguefia Salerosa," jubilantly they murdered it up to the spider-webbed rafters and well beyond.
The back of his gray frock coat veined with spider-webs and the mummies of a dozen flies who had found in the Tribune s window frame their final Egypt.
Some, with ball peens and mallets, were denting fenders skillfully, bending bumpers in an artful crash pattern, spider-webbing safety glass windshields.
Stair-ramps threaded between the Decks like hundred-yard-long traceries of spider-webs, and the elevator shafts were vertical pillars which pierced the levels, apparently supporting the metal sky.
Above, a long dusky beam, from which projected at regular distances massive encircling timbers, represented the vertebral column with its ribs, stalactites of plaster hung down like the viscera, and from one side to the other huge spider-webs made dusty diaphragms.