Cop vs. Spider

(obsolete) A spider.

A police officer or prison guard.

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

Example: ‘The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.’;

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

A merlon.

To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take.

(transitive) To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing.

Example: ‘When caught, he would often cop a vicious blow from his father’;

To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time.

(transitive) To steal.

(transitive) To adopt.

Example: ‘No need to cop an attitude with me, junior.’;

(transitive) To earn by bad behavior.

to admit, especially to a crime.

Example: ‘I already copped to the murder. What else do you want from me?’; ‘Harold copped to being known as "Dirty Harry".’;

The top of a thing; the head; a crest.

Example: ‘Cop they used to callThe tops of many hills.’;

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Same as Merlon.

A policeman.

uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

take by theft;

Example: ‘Someone snitched my wallet!’;

take into custody;

Example: ‘the police nabbed the suspected criminals’;

a police officer

Example: ‘a cop in a patrol car gave chase’;

shrewdness; practical intelligence

Example: ‘he had the cop-on to stay clear of Hugh Thornley’;

a conical mass of thread wound on to a spindle.

catch or arrest (an offender)

Example: ‘he was copped for speeding’;

incur (something unwelcome)

Example: ‘England's captain copped most of the blame’; ‘an easy journey, if we don't cop any rough weather’;

get into trouble

Example: ‘will you cop it from your dad if you get back late?’;

be killed

Example: ‘he almost copped it in a horrific accident’;

receive or attain (something welcome)

Example: ‘she copped an award for her role in the film’;

obtain (an illegal drug)

Example: ‘he copped some hash for me’;

strike (an attitude or pose)

Example: ‘I copped an attitude—I acted real tough’;

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

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

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

(slang) A spindly person.

(slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.

A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.

A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.

(cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer

A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached

(slang) Heroin (street drug).

(music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.

A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.

(sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard

To move like a spider.

To cover a surface like a cobweb.

To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.

Example: ‘The online dictionary is regularly spidered by search engines.’;

Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina.

Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red).

An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth.

A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire.

A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc.

predatory arachnid that usually has silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey

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

a skillet made of cast iron

an eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. Spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

used in names of arachnids similar or related to spiders, e.g. sea spider, sun spider.

an object resembling a spider, especially one having numerous or prominent legs or radiating spokes.

a set of radiating elastic ties used to hold a load in place on a vehicle.

a long-legged rest for a billiard cue that can be placed over a ball without touching it.

another term for crawler (sense 2)

move in a scuttling manner suggestive of a spider

Example: ‘a treecreeper spidered head first down the tree trunk’;

form a pattern suggestive of a spider or its web

Example: ‘a system of tunnels spider through the district’;

another term for crawl (sense 4 of the verb)

Example: ‘when the search engines spider your site they'll find all of the pages’;

Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all orders of organisms.