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Definition of Sheet web
1. Noun. An irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheet Web
Literary usage of Sheet web
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"The webs made by these are of various forms; but as they usually contain one or
more sheets of silk, I propose the term sheet-web weavers as the popular ..."
2. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1906)
"... however, is known to live four years, producing many broods (Staveley).
TYPE: Agelena naevia. This is a very common species, which makes its sheet web, ..."
3. The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill by J. Newell Stephenson (1922)
"From the couch roll, the sheet (web) of pulp passes through several presses, each
having an upper roll M° and a lower roll Mi, where more water <9 ..."
4. Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire by J. E. Marr, Arthur Everett Shipley (1904)
"The spinners of the circular snare are familiar objects enough, and so are the
less attractive sheet- web weavers of cellars and out-houses, ..."
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