Citations:spider strap

English citations of spider strap

Noun: "a system of connected straps"

• 1908, United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association, Volume 19‎^[1], page 166:

  A third strap was put around the scabbard just below the mouth, and this strap was fastened to the off rear spider strap.

• 2005, F+W Publications, Inc., Scuba diving, Issues 7-11‎^[2], page 77:

  The five-point spider strap system is secure and easy to adjust, and removing the maks is as simple as pushing the lower strap buckles forward.

• 2007, Tony Wells, Black Man Under the Deep Blue Sea: Memoirs of a Black Commercial Diver in Southeast Asia‎^[3], →ISBN, page 193:

  ... and in each case no one seemed to be able to explain how the diver's hat's ^[sic] had managed to come off of the divers' heads because, not only are they zipped on, they are also held on by a tight rubber spider strap, making it very difficult to remove.

• 2009, Aidan Duff, The Gentle Way‎^[4], →ISBN, page 108:

  Then, to Lisa's horror, when Chelsea rose she saw that the spider strap fastening on the rug had snapped and that the New Zealand had slipped over her quarters.