Usually means: Crawling websites to gather information.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word spidering:

General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spidering: Merriam-Webster
  2. spidering: Wordnik
  3. spidering: Wiktionary
  4. Spidering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spidering: Financial dictionary
  2. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spidering: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spidering: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spidering: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See spider as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spider)

noun:  Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
noun:  (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
noun:  (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
noun:  (slang) A spindly person.
noun:  (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
noun:  (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
noun:  (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
noun:  (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
noun:  (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
noun:  (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
noun:  A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
noun:  (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
noun:  (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
noun:  (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
noun:  (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
noun:  (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
noun:  (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
verb:  (intransitive) To move like a spider.
verb:  (intransitive) To cover a surface like a cobweb.
verb:  (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
noun:  The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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