warpern.
/ˈwɔːpə/, U.S. /ˈwɔrpər/ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > one who or that which
warperOE
castera1400
throwerc1450
flinger1598
tosser1612
jaculator1796
shy1884
shyer1895
slinger1902
OE Riddle 27 7 Nu ic eom bindere ond swingere, sona weorpe esne to eorþan, hwilum ealdne ceorl.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 158 Is his cnif warpere & pleiȝeð mid swordes.
2. One who winds yarn in preparation for weaving, one who lays the warp for the weaver.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > one who > in preparation for weaving
warper1611
warp-dresser1851
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > preparing warp > one who
warper1611
warp-dresser1851
slayer?1881
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ourdisseur, a warper; a putter of a web of cloth into the loome.
1822 A. Peddie (title) Linen Manufacturer, Weaver, and Warper's Assistant, with Tables, Drafts, Cordings, etc.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 259 Your warpers, your windsters, your weavers..no longer flourish and fatten.
1881 J. Bright in Daily News 17 Nov. 2/5 The warpers in those days, as far as my recollection serves me..were all women.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Warpers, those in cotton mills who ‘beam the yarn,’ i.e. take the bobbins from the winders, placing them in a machine, and wind up some four or five hundred of the threads, side by side,..upon what is called a warper's beam... Warpers, women employed in reeling warp yarns from bobbins on to reels, before they are taken to the dressing machines.
3. A warping-machine.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > preparing warp > machine for
warping-frame1688
warping-machine1819
warper1847
1847 Knickerbocker 30 517 A few [girls] tend the ‘warpers’, the ‘spoolers’, and the ‘speeders’.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.
4. A local name for the eel. Cf. wriggler n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > subdivision Teleostei > [noun] > order Anguilliformes > member of family Muraenidae (eel)
eelc1000
moray1624
mudworm1700
muraena1753
morene1773
muraenoid1849
warper1901
1901 Shooting Times 22 June 21/2 On a certain river where the eel is plentiful, and many rustic anglers go forth to catch him with rod and line.., the name ‘eel’ is seldom or never heard, but instead he is significantly known as a ‘warper.’
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