The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weaver \Weav"er\, n.
One who weaves, or whose occupation is to weave. ``Weavers of linen.''
--P. Plowman.(Zo["o]l.) A weaver bird.
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(Zo["o]l.) An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus. See Whirling.
Weaver bird (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of Asiatic, Fast Indian, and African birds belonging to Ploceus and allied genera of the family Ploceid[ae]. 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.
Weavers' shuttle (Zo["o]l.), an East Indian marine univalve shell ( Radius volva); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.
Usage examples of "weaver bird".
But there was one more bird, a white weaver bird, so tiny they had overlooked it.
There were branches that were used as pathways across the village, and children's swings made out of the old tree's beards, and in places where the tree stooped low down towards the earth its leaves formed roofs for many a hutment that seemed to hang from the greenery like the nest of a weaver bird.
The colours of the raw rocks astounded the eye: they were the sullen blue of stormclouds, yellow as a weaver bird's plumage, or red as wounded flesh, and bright as crystal.