weaver
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- noun
- /ˈwiːvər/
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tejedora
- At least one weaver appears, by hairstyle and dress, to be male.
- tapestry weavers
- weaver at the handloom
- silk weavers
They were highly skilled craftspeople and they worked primarily as weavers and they were Protestants.
- They were highly skilled craftspeople and they worked primarily as weavers and they were Protestants.
- But first, there's an idea about perhaps apprenticing her to Fan the Weaver.
- So there's hundreds of thousands of of weavers and this machine starts getting put into production.
- It's like when the, I think it was the weaving loom was invented, people went crazy like, Oh my God, this is just going to ruin it for the pre weavers.
Examples
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We have weavers and carpenters.
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Their farm flourished, and the Weaver taught her skills to local villagers.
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The sign of the weaver's hand from thousands of years ago actually recorded in this object.
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"But then Lytol, as a former weaver, has always been particular in matters of dress."
Fiction book (1991) -
Christopher: Father wants me to be a weaver, but that's not the life for me.
Fiction book (2001) -
Certainly he was a good hunter, an excellent trapper, a weaver of tight, impenetrable fishnets.
Fiction book (1993) -
Antonio's eldest brother is by many accounts one of the most accomplished weavers from Teotitlan.
Academic text (2000) -
Cocoons of wrapped yarn hang neatly along the rug's perfect edge, where the weaver stopped.
Fiction book (1994) -
The most valuable produce in the empire was gold brocade, which took silk from China, gold from Tibet, and weavers from Baghdad.
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At the home of a skilled weaver, I watched as she transformed colorful threads into beautiful fabrics.
Compounds
A small African or Asian bird that makes complex nests from grass and twigs and lives in groups
How Skilled
- Literature
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Weaver comes from the old verb weave, which means 'to make cloth by crossing threads', plus the agent ending -er that means 'someone who does something'. So a weaver is a person whose job is to make fabric.