Definitions for webbing

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webbing web·bing

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IPA: /ˈwɛb ɪŋ/

Webbing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in webbing (bbeginw).

Definitions for webbing

noun

1. a strong, woven material of hemp, cotton, or jute, in bands of various widths, used for belts, carrying straps, harness, etc.
2. such woven bands nailed on furniture under springs or upholstery, for support.
3. Zoology. the membrane forming a web or webs.
4. something resembling this, as the leather thongs or piece connecting the sections for the thumb and forefinger in a baseball glove or mitt.
5. any material or part formed from interlaced threads, thongs, branches, etc., or having a latticelike appearance, as the face of a tennis racket.
6. webbings, Chiefly Eastern New England Older Use. the reins or lines for controlling a horse or team of horses.
7. something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
8. a thin, silken material spun by spiders and the larvae of some insects, as the webworms and tent caterpillars; cobweb.
9. Textiles. a woven fabric, especially a whole piece of cloth in the course of being woven or after it comes from the loom. the flat woven strip, without pile, often found at one or both ends of an Oriental rug.
10. something resembling woven material, especially something having an interlaced or latticelike appearance:
11. an intricate set or pattern of circumstances, facts, etc.:
12. something that snares or entangles; a trap:
13. webbing.
14. Zoology. a membrane that connects the digits of an animal, as the toes of aquatic birds.
15. Ornithology. the series of barbs on each side of the shaft of a feather. the series on both sides, collectively.
16. an integral or separate part of a beam, rail, truss, or the like, that forms a continuous, flat, narrow, rigid connection between two stronger, broader parallel parts, as the flanges of a structural shape, the head and foot of a rail, or the upper and lower chords of a truss.
17. Machinery. an arm of a crank, usually one of a pair, holding one end of a crankpin at its outer end.
18. Architecture. (in a vault) any surface framed by ribbing.
19. a large roll of paper, as for continuous feeding of a web press.
20. a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.
21. Informal. a network of radio or television broadcasting stations.
22. (sometimes initial capital letter) Computers. World Wide Web. (usually preceded by the).

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a web; envelop.
2. to ensnare or entrap.

verb (used without object)

1. to make or form a web.

Origin of webbing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at web, -ing¹

Examples for webbing

The webbing is red, and extends about an inch and a half, when a narrow fringe finishes the ends.

Banbury manufactures horse girths and other kinds of webbing, as well as excellent ale.

Each of the pup's toes was joined to the next by a webbing of skin.

There were many people on the webbing of paths that came from the temple rock.

Then drawing the webbing tight was no trouble, and I was spinning with the bird.

He belched gently and stretched his long legs luxuriously away from the webbing of the bucket camp chair.

The significance of the webbing was questioned by Shannon and Humphrey.

Further down, another affair of webbing went around his waist.

The webbing which goes back and forth is interwoven with that which goes from right to left.

Each of these was faced by two or three of the bucket-seats, only these swung in webbing.