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Weaver or Weavers may refer to:


Activities

* A person who engages in
weaving Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth. Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. The longitudinal ...
fabric


Animals

* Various birds of the family
Ploceidae Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches and bishops. These names come from the nests of intricately woven vegetation created by birds in this family. In most recent classifica ...
*
Crevice weaver Crevice weaver spiders (Filistatidae) comprise cribellate spiders with features that have been regarded as "Primitive (phylogenetics), primitive" for araneomorph spiders. They are weavers of funnel or tube webs. The family contains 18 genera and m ...
spider family *
Orb-weaver spider Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family (biology), family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped spider web, webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circ ...
family *
Weever Weevers (or weeverfish) are nine extant species of fishes of family Trachinidae, order Trachiniformes, part of the Percomorpha clade. They are long (up to 37 cm), mainly brown in color, and have venomous spines on their first dorsa ...
(or weever-fish)


Arts and entertainment

* ''Weaver'' (Stephen Baxter), the fourth novel in Baxter's Time's Tapestry series *
The Weavers The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs fr ...
, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger * ''The Weavers'' (1905 film), a silent, black and white documentary film made in 1905 by the Balkan film pioneers the Manaki brothers * ''The Weavers'' (play), English title of ''Die Weber'', a play by
Gerhart Hauptmann Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He rece ...
* Weaver, an abandoned ghost town in the 2002 film ''Disappearance'' * Corporal Weaver, a character in the 1998 DreamWorks Animation animated film ''
Antz ''Antz'' is a 1998 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their fe ...
'' * Weaver, the codename for Taylor Hebert in the web serial ''
Worm Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and no eyes (though not always). Worms vary in size from microscopic to over in length for marine polychaete wo ...
'' * Weaver Marquez, a character in the narrative videogame Kentucky Route Zero * Grigori Weaver, a character in the 2010 video game '' Call of Duty: Black Ops'' and the 2020 sequel '' Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War''


Places

* Weaver, Alabama, US * Weaver, Arizona, US *
Weaver, Indiana Weaver is an unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Grant County, Indiana. Weaver's first settlers were free people of color who migrated from North Carolina and South Carolina to Grant County in the early 1840s. The neighborhood was origina ...
, US * Weaver, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Weaver, Minnesota, US * Weavers, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Weaver, West Virginia, US *
Weavers' Way The Weavers' Way is a long-distance footpath in Norfolk, England. Much of the Weavers’ Way footpath follows the old trackbed of the Aylsham to Great Yarmouth railway line, which was operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railwa ...
, a long footpath, or trail, in Norfolk, England *
River Weaver The River Weaver is a river, navigable in its lower reaches, running in a curving route anti-clockwise across west Cheshire, northern England. Improvements to the river to make it navigable were authorised in 1720 and the work, which included ...
in England * Weaver Hills in Staffordshire, England * Weaver Lake (disambiguation) * Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge in Pennsylvania, US * Weavers, New South Wales, Australia * Weaver building, Swansea * Weaver Siding, New Brunswick * Weaver Settlement, Nova Scotia


Other uses

* Weaver (surname) *
Weaver rail mount A Weaver rail mount is a system to connect telescopic sights (often via a scope mount) and other accessories to firearms and certain crossbows. It uses a pair of parallel rails and several slots perpendicular to these rails. The later Picatinn ...
, a style of mount used to attach a scope to a firearm or crossbow *
Weaver stance The Weaver stance is a shooting technique for handguns. It was developed by Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Jack Weaver during freestyle pistol competition in Southern California during the late 1950s. Description The Weaver stance has two m ...
, a two-handed stance for use when firing handguns *
Dokumacılar The Dokumacılar (English: ''Weavers'') was a Turkish organisation linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) that specifically targeted the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) that were fighting against ISIL in the Syrian Civ ...
(English: Weavers), a terrorist organisation part of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant active in Turkey


See also

* Justice Weaver (disambiguation) * The Weavers (disambiguation) * * * Weever (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo