Other forms: weavers
A weaver is somebody who makes cloth on a loom. A hand weaver, the weaver's cottage, a master weaver.
Weaving is the interlacing of two sets of threads at right angles — the warp running lengthways and the weft across — and that geometry is what distinguishes it from knitting. Handloom weaving was a major cottage industry in Britain before the power loom, and the collapse of it is much of the story of the Industrial Revolution. Note weaverbird, which builds elaborate woven nests, and the surname Weaver, one of the commonest trade names in English.
1nounweaverSomebody who makes cloth on a loom.
“The weaver worked in a room built with a long low window.”
weaver is a craftsperson.
Old English wefan, to weave, gives weaver, web, weft and, less obviously, wafer — from the woven pattern pressed into it. The whole family has been in English since before it was written down.
Proto-West Germanic
*webārī
Old English
*wefere
Middle English
wevere
English, today
weaver
Built from
From Middle English wevere, wever, from Old English wefere, wifre, wæfre (“weaver”), from Proto-West Germanic webārī. by surface analysis, weave + -er. Compare stq Weeuwer (“weaver”), Dutch wever (“weaver”), German Low German Wever (“weaver”), German Weber (“weaver”), Swedish vävare (“weaver”), Icelandic vefari (“weaver”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA