weaver : Idioms & Phrases

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orb-weaver

  • noun spiders that spin orb webs; cosmopolitan in distribution
    Argiopidae; family Argiopidae.
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Sociable bird, ∨ Sociable weaver

  • (Zoöl.), a weaver bird which builds composite nests. See Republican, n., 3. (b).
Webster 1913

Weaver bird

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceidæ. Weaver birds resemble finches and sparrows in size, colors, and shape of the bill. They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials. In some of the species the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube.
Webster 1913

weaver finch

  • noun finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
    weaver; weaverbird.
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weaver's broom

  • noun tall thornless shrub having pale yellow flowers and flexible rushlike twigs used in basketry; of southwestern Europe and Mediterranean; naturalized in California
    Spanish broom; Spartium junceum.
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weaver's hitch

  • noun a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
    weaver's hitch; becket bend; sheet bend.
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weaver's knot

  • noun a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye)
    weaver's hitch; becket bend; sheet bend.
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Weavers' shuttle

  • (Zoöl.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.
Webster 1913