Part of a resonatorinstrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
a soft-hackle fly
The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard
From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra, from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną ("to spin"). Mostly displaced attercop, now a dialectal term.
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