463: spider Mar 15, 2016

Spiders are known for many things, such as the need to use a flamethrower around any general vicinity where there is even a small chance of finding a spider, but the Anglo-Saxons seemed to notice something else. 'Spider' comes from the late Old English 'spīthra' , from 'spinnan' an Old English word meaning, ‘draw out and twist fiber’, based on the way in which spiders spin webs.