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weavers

/ˈwivɚz/

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What does weavers mean?

noun

  1. plural of weaver

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Darke County, Ohio, United States, named after Peter Weaver.
More meanings (1)

proper noun

  1. A locality in the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈwivɚz/

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In recent years the Ibans, Muruts, and a few of the Klemantan tribes have been the only weavers.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
All the manufacturing towns were short of employment, and the weavers and factory workers were thrown upon the public.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
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East India Companies, in place of petty guilds of weavers and bakers, bear witness to the vast commercial progress.
John FiskeThe Unseen World, and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #1486
I asked at a wretched little accumulation of weavers' huts where the ghat was, and if my elephant had gone on.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818
It is not by the sale of their work, but by that of the complete work of the weavers, that our great master manufacturers make their profits.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300