weaver

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsman who weaves cloth

   The weaver worked linen on a narrow loom.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.

   The Silks, varniſh'd Works, Ink, Paper, and in general every thing that comes, both from Nan-king and the other Cities of the Province, which carry on an aſtoniſhing Trade, is much more eſteem'd and dear, than what is brought from other Provinces. In the City Shang-hay only, and the Villages belonging to it, they reckon above 200,000 Weavers of Callico.

3. 3
   noun

   finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests

   The weaver worked linen on a narrow loom.

4. 4
   noun

   A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.

   To add a new weaver, simply soak a new one, slide one end under a rib (over the old weaver) and continue weaving with both of them until the old one runs out. […] If your weaver has dried, rewet it and weave several rows as in Diagram 26.

From Middle English wevere, wever, from Old English *wefere, *wifre, *wæfre (“weaver”, in compounds), from Proto-West Germanic *webārī. By surface analysis, weave + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Weeuwer (“weaver”), Dutch wever (“weaver”), German Low German Wever (“weaver”), German Weber (“weaver”), Swedish vävare (“weaver”), Icelandic vefari (“weaver”).

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