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Definition of Cobwebs
1. cobweb [v] - See also: cobweb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cobwebs
Literary usage of Cobwebs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Common Spiders of the United States by James Henry Emerton (1902)
"cobwebs are of four principal kinds : 1. The flat webs, closely woven of long
threads crossed by finer ones in all directions and connected with a tubular ..."
2. A History of New York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the by Washington] [Irving (1820)
"... how Peter the Headstrong bestirred himself among the rats and cobwebs on
entering into ... cobwebs ..."
3. Aunt Sarah & the War: A Tale of Transformations by Wilfrid Meynell (1915)
"What's all this going to mean for us out here, and for dear old England? Of course
at home a lot of cobwebs will be swept away. ..."
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