cobweb

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a spider's web, especially an old, dusty, or irregular one

   A cobweb stretched between the rafters of the empty barn.

From Middle English coppeweb or copweb, formed from the obsolete word coppe 'spider' + web. As coppe disappeared from ordinary use, cobweb survived as a compound whose first element was no longer transparent to speakers.

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