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One who weaves.
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A strand of material used in weaving.
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A weaverbird.
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An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
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Certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae
Examples of weaver in a Sentence
It lies on the river Weaver, in the upper part of its flat, open valley.
His father was a poor weaver, and the expenses of his early education were paid by one of his godfathers.
Its weaver wants a jar of wild forest honey in exchange.
In early life he was a weaver, hence the punning description of him as Weevir, rex philosophorum.
The weaver, the fuller, the armourer, the potter, the shoemaker were told exactly how to do their own work.
His father, Christopher Fox, called by the neighbours "Righteous Christer," was a weaver by occupation;.
There is one trogon - green and crimson, a brightly coloured ground thrush (Pitta), numerous woodpeckers and barbets; glossy starlings, the black and white African crow and a great variety of brilliantly coloured weaver birds, waxbills, shrikes and sun-birds.
It lies on a headstream of the small river Wheelock, a tributary of the Weaver.
In the town, which is only second to Northwich in this respect, large quantities of salt are raised and conveyed to Liverpool for exportation; being shipped in flats down the Weaver, which has been rendered navigable by an elaborate system of locks.
The iron bridge across the Weaver, which was built in 1856, had to be raised thrice in the following twenty-six years.
The little rooibek of South Africa (Estrilda astrild) has been so long and well established in St Helena that it is known in the bird trade as the St Helena waxbill, and the brilliant scarlet weaver of Madagascar (Foudia madagascariensis) inhabits as an imported bird Mauritius, the Seychelles and even the remote Chagos Islands.
The river Weaver, a tributary of the Mersey, affords a waterway of importance to the salt-producing towns of Cheshire.
Herons, hawks, terns, Egyptian geese, fishing eagles (Gypohierax), the weaver and the whydah bird are found in the lower and middle Congo.
It lies in a low open valley at the confluence of the rivers Weaver and Dane, and is the centre of the principal salt-producing district in the United Kingdom.
Despite these precautions many accidents have occurred; some of the houses have sunk or stand at fantastic angles, and in 1892 a portion of the High Street, which had subsided below the level of the Weaver, had to be raised 6 ft.
There is a considerable industry in the building of flat boats to convey salt to Liverpool, the river Weaver being navigable, and connected by a hydraulic lift, 1 m.
The weaver birds and their allies, including the long-tailed whydahs, are abundant, as are, among game-birds, the francolin and guinea-fowl.
In 1800 a West Linton weaver, Alexander Alexander, set up a water-powered woolen mill in the village, using coarse Tweeddale wool.
She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver and plays the naive heroine well, if a little too credulous for my taste.
By now a legend in television history, Weaver became increasingly critical of the increasingly cutthroat and commercial nature of US broadcasting.
The red-billed buffalo weaver nests on the track into the Lodge had some Pygmy falcons in residence.
A former weaver 's cottage, it is situated round the corner from a good pub.
He was not content to pass away like a weaver 's shuttle.
To the Maya, Chuen was known as the weaver of time.
Stanley Kubrick treated us to an unsettling version of Stephen King's The Shining in 1980, the same year that Sigourney Weaver first squared off against the H.R.
It has several marked deficiencies compared with Australia, among which are the babblers (Timeliidae), weaver birds (Ploceidae), the Platycercinae among parrots, diurnal birds of p rey and the emeus.
Arras of large dimensions, showing remarkable workmanship and grand combinations of colors, is now manufactured in KiOto, the product of years of patient toil on the part of weaver and designer alike.
Many Thanks Margaret and Arthur Weaver stayed at parc glas bach, moylegrove in May 2005 Enjoyed our stay in your comfortable cottage.
This man is one gifted clairvoyants in England, tho Tom Tyrrell the weaver, Aaron Wilkinson, and others are very marvelous.
A wonderful variety of birds, ranging from sunbirds and weaver birds to fish eagles and sacred ibis are numerous.
Probably only Robert Ross, a weaver from the Links Feus who had been appointed first janitor, knew the truth.
Weaver William Jefferies and bronze sculptor Philip Hearsey fill the gallery with figurative tapestries and abstract vessels.
To some extent they were standardized - a weaver's shuttle was a weaver's shuttle be it from Edinburgh or Haddington.
In the plane of Air, the Weaver may use the raw stuff of Dreams to make substantial, permenant objects.
A Bolton handloom weaver could earn a princely £ 1 10s a week in the mid 1790s.
She has a filled tray of pirns at her feet, ready for the silk weaver.
The cartoons were sent to the Brussels workshop of tapestry weaver Pieter van Aelst in early 1517.
The more senses sent out by the Weaver, the more willpower must be spent.
Himself a stalwart weaver, he was opposed to physical force movements and did all he could to restrain the violent resistance to trade oppression which was so common; yet through attending and speaking at the meeting (1819) at Peterloo, Manchester, which was intended to be a peaceful gathering to petition for Parliamentary reform and a repeal of the Corn Law but ended in a massacre, he was arrested for a breach of the law, convicted and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
The salt industry, still the staple of several towns lower down the vale of the Weaver, was so important here in the time of Henry VIII.
He, too, was a weaver by trade.
The more senses sent out by the Weaver, the more Willpower must be spent.
In 1992, actress Sigourney Weaver shaved her head for her role as Ripley in Alien 3.
Holes, a film in which LaBeouf acted opposite Hollywood heavyweights Sigourney Weaver and Jon Voight, was a box office hit.
Sigourney Weaver was born Susan Weaver, but opted for something a little longer and more difficult to spell.
The black and yellow garden spider, also known as orb weaver spider, writing spider, yellow garden spider, or scientifically as Argiope aurantia, is an impressive species of garden spiders found throughout most of North America.
Ore weaver spiders are remarkable for the beautiful, complex webs they spin daily, each reaching up to two feet (60 cm) in diameter.
Orb weaver spiders prey on a number of garden pest species, such as aphids and grasshoppers, making them a natural asset to any garden.
Catherines plus sizes were the brain child of a woman by the name of Catherine Weaver.
At the time, owner Weaver called her store Catherines Stout Shoppe.