weaver

CEFRB1

/ˈwiː.və(ɹ)/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person who makes cloth by crossing threads together.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.

Examples

  • The spring season is normally very busy for Iowa real estate broker Georgia Weaver.

  • I pick weaver ant's nests.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A weaverbird.

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

  3. An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

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The talented blank used a loom to create colorful blankets for the village market.

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Origin

noun

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”).