weaver

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A dyed-in-the-wool egalitarian in need of advice on wood will still seek a carpenter over a weaver.

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a craftsman who weaves cloth

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noun

a craftsman who weaves cloth

noun

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

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Core meanings and parts of speech for weaver.

noun

a craftsman who weaves cloth

noun

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

Example sentences

A dyed-in-the-wool egalitarian in need of advice on wood will still seek a carpenter over a weaver.

It is very different, because there were no laws requiring weavers to meet exacting standards of manual skill before atetemtping to make a living as a weaver.

... Similarly, the largest orb-weavers make webs powerful enough to retain the largest insects, which are simply not available to smaller spiders, and their webs can sometimes even subdue vertebrate prey.

For example, tiny anapid and mysmenids build orb webs that capture insects ignored by larger orb-weavers, and theridiosomatids specialize on mosquitoes that are too small to be relevant to the diets of large spiders but also such specialized fliers that they are rarely captured by the webs of other, less-specialized spiders.

The verdict: 'If a cloth weaver intends to process a piece according to his own invention, he must not set it on the loom, but should obtain permission from the judges of the town to employ the number and length of threads that he desires, after the question has been considered by four of the oldest merchants and four of the oldest weavers of the guild.