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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The structural part or web of a textile fabric.
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Examples
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Guys ... if this guy was doing all this web-work out of the goodness of his heart, and truly unconditionally supported Barak, why didnt he just offer up the page for free?...
Archive 2007-05-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Eventually buses, trains, taxis and regular rental car will be enfolded into this concept creating for the subscriber a seamless, virtual, yet very real web-work of transportation capable of meeting all of the needs currently met by private vehicle ownership, but at reduced costs.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Radiocar: Killer App for Mobile Net? 2003
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Presently the hide-and-seek frolicking began, and Tom and Becky engaged in it with zeal until the exertion began to grow a trifle wearisome; then they wandered down a sinuous avenue holding their candles aloft and reading the tangled web-work of names, dates, post-office addresses, and mottoes with which the rocky walls had been frescoed
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Stooping our heads, we made our way through this cramped and labyrinthine passage—whose damp walls gleamed with a white web-work of nitre—and proceeded, by slow degrees, into the furthermost recesses of the basement.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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It's bad enough part of this damn painting tells you how to access some kind of alien web-work.
Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Far beneath was the other half of the great map, its faint web-work radiating towards the points of the compass.
Against The Fall Of Night Clarke, Arthur C. 1953
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Still they wind away in their gladness, when hurriedly Beltran reaches his hand for the heedless Vivia's, and hurriedly she sees terrifying grooves spreading round them, a great web-work of cracks, -- the awful ice lifts itself, sinks, and out of a monstrous fissure chill death rises to meet them and ingulf them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.
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