weaver
part of speech
noun (a weaver, weavers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A weaver is a person whose job or hobby is weaving: making cloth by crossing threads over and under each other on a loom. tree →
2) A weaver (or weaverbird) is a small bird, mostly from Africa, that weaves amazing nests from grass and leaves. tree →
3) Someone who makes up and tells stories can be called a weaver of tales. tree →
4) (a name) Weaver is also a surname. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The "weaver in colours" made the Tabernacle's screens and the priest's girdle with coloured threads, unlike the embroiderer. Elsewhere a weaver's shuttle is a picture of fast-passing days, and a "weaver's beam" is the thick pole on a loom, used to describe Goliath's huge spear. Interpretation: Tradition says the weaver's work had a single pattern of colours, while the embroiderer's work had pictures such as cherubim. Job's shuttle is read as a sigh about how short life is. In the primary lessons: In history lessons weavers worked at home on hand looms until factories with power looms took over in the Industrial Revolution, which made many weavers poor. In science lessons weaver birds show animal building skills, and the male builds a nest to attract a female. In art and DT lessons pupils weave paper or wool on a card loom. Phrases: hand-loom weaver, silk weaver, weaver bird, a weaver of stories.
examples
- and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the weaver in colours; as the LORD commanded Moses. (Torah EXO.39.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours; (Torah EXO.36.37, JPS 1917) tree →
- And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the weaver in colours. (Torah EXO.26.36, JPS 1917) tree →
- My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. (Writings JOB.7.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him. (Prophets 1SA.17.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. (Prophets 2SA.21.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- The weaver worked at her loom all day. tree →
- Weavers lost their jobs when big factories were built. tree →
- The weaver bird tied the grass into a tight knot. tree →
- Hundreds of weaver nests hung from the tree like balls. tree →
- My aunt is a weaver who makes colourful rugs. tree →
- The old storyteller was a great weaver of tales. tree →
- Silk weavers made fine cloth for rich people. tree →
- We became weavers for a day and made a paper mat. tree →
- One day, two rogues, calling themselves weavers, made their appearance. tree →
note
Countable: a weaver, weavers. From the verb «weave» (weave, weaves, wove, woven, weaving) + «-er». Do not confuse with «waver», which means to be unsure or to shake. «Weaving» in traffic means moving in and out between cars.
In the corpora
- My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Weaver ants sew leaves into nests, holding their own larvae like glue sticks that spin silk.
- Small ants can carry many times their own weight, and weaver ants were photographed holding about 100 times their weight upside down.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «weaver» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.