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the abandoned mansion of the spider world, dusty proof the landlord skipped town.
means A spider's web, especially an old, dusty, abandoned one left clinging in a corner.
from From Middle English 'coppeweb,' built on 'coppe,' an old word for spider (from Old English 'attorcoppe,' literally 'poison-head' — 'attor' meaning poison, 'coppe' a head or cup). So the first half of 'cobweb' is a forgotten word for spider; the creature named itself into the web and then quietly vanished from the language, leaving only the 'cob' behind like a thread in the corner.
- name origin
- cob meant spider in Old English
- vacant
- a cobweb is a web no longer maintained
- dust trap
- sticky silk grabs floating debris until grey
- silk strength
- spider silk rivals steel by weight
- old finding
- silk used to dress wounds for centuries
orb weaver spider web — the sticky, circular webs spun by spiders in the family araneidae, found worldwide and capable of catching insects larger than the spider itself
abandoned house cobwebs — dense accumulations of dust-laden spider silk in neglected structures like the winchester mystery house in san jose, california, which famously collected thick