I.a shackle, fetter, or chain for the feet, a springe, gin, snare (cf.: compes, vinculum tendicula).
I. Lit., Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 10; Liv. 21, 36: “tunc gruibus pedicas et retia ponere cervis,” Verg. G. 1, 307; Ov. M. 15, 473; Vulg. Jer. 5, 26: “quid, si pedes pedicis coartentur?” App. Flor. p. 357, 29.—
B. Transf., of the spider's web, Plin. 11, 24, 28, § 81.—