webbers

Noun

webber (plural webbers)

1. An animal that creates webs, such as a spider.
   • Mites of this sort are prolific webbers […]1960, Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade World, page 14
2. A person who weaves webs, especially one who manufactures webbing.
   • On the other hand, the Wurtemberg calico manufacturers succeeded in doing a profitable business, and a similar good report may be given as respects machine weavers in colours, wick makers, webbers ( i.e., girth makers, &c.) and staymakers, at all events for the latter half of the year.1880, Great Britain. Foreign Office, Reports by Her Majesty's Secretaries of Embassy and Legation on the Manufatures, commerce, &c., of the Countries in which they reside, page 150
3. One who applies webbing.
   • From there the assembled backs and fronts went to the webbers, who put on the webbing.1957, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 1226
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 […]1900, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, page 1475
5. (informal) A creature with webbed feet.
   • All the Swimmers are webbers.1878, Norman Allison Calkins, Abby Morton Diaz, Swimming Birds, page 2
6. (informal) A member of a food web.
   • Many brown food webbers eat a mixture of foods—including each other!2020, Leslie Bulion, Leaf Litter Critters

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