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1. Predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
    
2. A computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
   - web crawler, crawler
    
3. [US] A skillet made of cast iron

1. (computing) automatically follow links on the internet in order to gather information from many linked pages
   "my home page is regularly spidered by search engines"

Derived forms: spidered, spiders, spidering

Type of: arachnid, arachnoid, computer program, computer programme [Brit], frying pan, frypan [N. Amer], program, programme [Brit, Cdn], skillet [N. Amer]

Part of: Araneae, Araneida, order Araneae, order Araneida

Encyclopedia: Spider, Kentucky