D:a peace of land projecting into water
We can actually deduce here that the particular word that is from the passage that best explains what the web in the passage symbolizes is: Weaving.
<h3>What is symbolism?</h3>
Symbolism is actually known to be a way that certain things are represented with use of words, symbols, signs, etc.
We see that from the passage, referring to the web as "a close-grained web" makes one know it's related to "weaving".
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