noun

1. Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.

2. A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

3. A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).

   “2002, Katharine Gasparini, Cranberry and vanilla ice cream spider, recipe in Cool Food, page 339.”

Synonyms: attercop, cop

verb

1. To move like a spider.

2. To cover a surface like a cobweb.

3. (of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

   “The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.”