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Why are cob-webs called cob webs?
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this is from OED
cobweb, n. Forms: 4_6 coppeweb, (-bes), 4_7 copweb, 5_6 copwebbe, (also 4 copweft); 6 cobbewebbe, 6_7 cobwebbe, 6_ cobweb.
[ME. coppeweb, f. coppe spider (see cop3) + web. Cf. Westphal. cobbenwebbe (Woeste 137 b), and cob n.4]
1. The web or fine network spun by a spider for the capture of its prey; also, the substance.
1323 Munim. Gildh. Lond. (Rolls) III. 415 Fila de coppe_webbes.
1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 343 Lanfranc destroyede Þe castes of Þe my_ti men as who destroyeÞ cop_web [v.r. attercrop weftes, copweft, attercops nestes].
1398 ---- Barth. De P.R. xviii. xi. (1495) 767 Coppe webbe that is white and clene staunchyth blood.
1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (1847) 13 With cobwebbes and dust.
1551 T. Wilson Logike 50 Spiders make their owne cobwebs without any other helpe.
1570 Levins Manip. 47/3 A cop_webbe, tela, aranea.
1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 48 Is_the house trim'd, rushes strew'd, cobwebs swept?
1747 Wesley Princ. Physic (1762) 30 Make six middling Pills of Cobwebs.
_1845 Hood Turtles vi, A cellar damp, With venerable cobwebs fringed around.
1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 316 A limp band softer than silk or cobweb.
cobweb, n. Forms: 4_6 coppeweb, (-bes), 4_7 copweb, 5_6 copwebbe, (also 4 copweft); 6 cobbewebbe, 6_7 cobwebbe, 6_ cobweb.
[ME. coppeweb, f. coppe spider (see cop3) + web. Cf. Westphal. cobbenwebbe (Woeste 137 b), and cob n.4]
1. The web or fine network spun by a spider for the capture of its prey; also, the substance.
1323 Munim. Gildh. Lond. (Rolls) III. 415 Fila de coppe_webbes.
1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 343 Lanfranc destroyede Þe castes of Þe my_ti men as who destroyeÞ cop_web [v.r. attercrop weftes, copweft, attercops nestes].
1398 ---- Barth. De P.R. xviii. xi. (1495) 767 Coppe webbe that is white and clene staunchyth blood.
1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (1847) 13 With cobwebbes and dust.
1551 T. Wilson Logike 50 Spiders make their owne cobwebs without any other helpe.
1570 Levins Manip. 47/3 A cop_webbe, tela, aranea.
1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 48 Is_the house trim'd, rushes strew'd, cobwebs swept?
1747 Wesley Princ. Physic (1762) 30 Make six middling Pills of Cobwebs.
_1845 Hood Turtles vi, A cellar damp, With venerable cobwebs fringed around.
1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 316 A limp band softer than silk or cobweb.
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