webber

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.

   • Mites of this sort are prolific webbers […]
   • The eightleg webbers caused that fear in him.
   • Some webbers are drab, colorless, and small, preferring to spin their webs in dark cellars.
2. 2

   A person who weaves webs, especially one who manufactures webbing.

   • The men employed in the cloth trade were weavers, webbers, tuckers, walkers (who thickened the cloth by walking and stamping upon it), fullers, millmen, shearmen, carders, and sorters of wool, spinners and spullars of yarn, &c.
   • Such questionable tactics, however, were in some instances followed by webbers who, when a bonus could be secured, sold to other parties goods that were already contracted for.
3. 3

   One who applies webbing.

   • From there the assembled backs and fronts went to the webbers, who put on the webbing.
   • Job simplification has resulted in less skilled workers taking over parts of the job, i.e. webbers to tack the webbing and spring setters to install the springs.
   • Coil spring setters install springs after webbers have tacked the webbing on which the springs rest.
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   1. 4

      Any of various devices that emit string in the production of a web or webbing.

      • A knitting machine, provided with two needle beds coacting, each having a combway for the reception of the same set of webbers, the combways of the first bed provided at their bottoms in the base of the bed with slideway seatings […]
      • The few plain webbers on show seemed to be designed primarily for speed and at least one of them was demonstrating how fabric for meat bags should be made.
      • Random webs are preferably produced by the air-dynamic method on pneumatic webbers.
   2. 5

      A creature with webbed feet.

      • All the Swimmers are webbers.
   3. 6

      A member of a food web.

      • Many brown food webbers eat a mixture of foods—including each other!
      • Marine food webbers gobble their fill.
   4. 7

      Someone who uses the internet

      Someone who uses the internet; a visitor of websites.

      • Similar to ScienceNOW 's readers, The Why Files audience seems to range from technoliterate scientists killing time on the job to first-time webbers.
      • So, even if you use JPEG images, their beauty will be lost on webbers having Windows systems, until the JDK is updated.
      • Netscape is the web browser used by an estimated 70% of the US isp webbers, and can be enabled to read Java.
   5. 8

      One who works on the creation or publishing of websites.

      • Perhaps you're still just enjoying exploring, or maybe you've found your own little niche of favorite sites run by like-minded Webbers.
      • Figure 2 represents a possible future scenario, where the webber-analyst grabs and glues bits of model that might be deemed sufficiently appropriate.
      • (see title)
   6. 9

      A surname originating as an occupation for a weaver.

   7. 10

      A placename

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