- weaver, spider. Literally a weaver, wabster was extended to the spider for its webmaking skills. John Galt makes a reference to a spider wabster in The Entail (1823):
Down came a spider wabster as big as a puddock.
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- weaver, spider. Literally a weaver, wabster was extended to the spider for its webmaking skills. John Galt makes a reference to a spider wabster in The Entail (1823): Down came a spider wabster as big as a puddock. |
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