Web
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A short dictionary-style entry from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica on the word "web." It traces the word's Teutonic origin from the root meaning "to weave" and lists its senses: woven cloth, a feather vane, the membrane between the toes of aquatic animals, a spider's cobweb, and the stone shell of a vault in architecture. It refers readers to the Weaving and Vault articles.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
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- 1
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