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noun
1.
a web spun by a spider to entrap its prey.
2.
a single thread spun by a spider.
3.
something resembling a cobweb; anything finespun, flimsy, or insubstantial.
5.
cobwebs, confusion, indistinctness, or lack of order: I'm so tired my head is full of cobwebs.
verb (used with object)
6.
to cover with or as with cobwebs: Spiders cobwebbed the cellar.
7.
to confuse or muddle: Drunkenness cobwebbed his mind.
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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English coppeweb, derivative of Old English -coppe spider (in ātorcoppe poison spider); cognate with Middle Dutch koppe; see web
1275–1325; Middle English coppeweb, derivative of Old English -coppe spider (in ātorcoppe poison spider); cognate with Middle Dutch koppe; see web
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cobweb
1323, first element is O.E. -coppe in atorcoppe "spider," lit. "poison-head" (see attercop). Cob for "a spider" was an old word nearly dead even in dialects when J.R.R. Tolkien used it in "The Hobbit" (1937).
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