tīdre

tīdre, adj: fragile, weak, easily broken. (TEE-druh / ˈtiː-drə)

Medieval manuscript image of a ten-legged spider hanging by a thread below a web.
Rothschild Canticles; Flander of the Rhineland, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404, 130r. [bestiary.ca]

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