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US
/ˈwivɝ/
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[ UK /wˈiːvɐ/ ]
[ UK /wˈiːvɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
How To Use weaver In A Sentence
- Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
- In the early 1800s, the French weaver Joseph Jacquard invented a loom in which a series of punched cards controlled the patterns of cloth and carpet produced.
- The hard-throwing Weaver has a knack for challenging left-handed hitters in a manner that reminds me of a young Frank Tanana.
- Most clearly, it would be the manufacturers or entrepreneurs who commissioned weavers to create cotton textiles with woven patterns — stripes, checks, dimities used for garments and furnishing fabrics. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
- He lists the names of dyers, weavers, and embroiderers where possible.
- Using the hook like a weaver's batten, he secured the heaving line under the two-inch rope that ran the length of the deck. LET NOT THE DEEP
- Rural spinners could not compete with cheap, factory-spun thread, and country weavers could rarely survive far from eastern supplies of yarn and the industry's principal markets.
- He has been at hard-heads with the rogues and come off with advantage; in short, practised with success the art of drawing two souls out of one weaver. [ The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
- Jute is now the wonder fabric that can spin gold for innovative weavers who have invested in the appropriate spinning machinery.
- At every halt of the wagons a shoemaker would be seen searching for a lapstone; a gunsmith would be mending a rifle, and weavers would be at their wheels or looms. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West