spider web

or spider's web

noun

the web that is spun by a spider, made of interlaced threads of viscous fluid that harden on exposure to air.

First recorded in 1525–35

Like lifting weights or boxing in a dust and spider-web-infested concrete shed with a tin roof.

The children at once ran away, and their father hung the spider-web over the door of the lodge.

Jim nodded and glanced up at the red spider web that was dotted clear to the eighteenth floor with black dots of workmen.

They can jump through an ordinary net as easily as a frog breaks a spider-web.

The spider-web itself, of course, was no reason for them to be alarmed.

If it wasn't for administerin' town business right I'd have got him a spider-web and let him sail away on it.

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