Weaver (other)
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

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 th ...
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 Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
family *
Weever Weevers (or weeverfish) are nine extant taxon, extant species of fishes of Family (biology), family Trachinidae, order Trachiniformes, part of the Percomorpha clade. They are long (up to 37 cm), mainly brown in color, and have venomous s ...
(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 fro ...
, 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 recei ...
* 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 wor ...
'' * Weaver Marquez, a character in the narrative videogame
Kentucky Route Zero ''Kentucky Route Zero'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game was first revealed in 2011 via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and is separated into five acts tha ...
* 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 Weaver, or Weaverville, is a former gold mining town, now a deserted ghost town, in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. All that remains are some rusting mining machinery, a partially restored cemetery, and the ruins of a stone house. Histor ...
, 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 Weavers is an unincorporated community in Darke County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11. ...
, an unincorporated community *
Weaver, West Virginia Weaver is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers ...
, 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 Railway an ...
, 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 The Weaver Hills are a small range of hills in north east Staffordshire, England. The Weaver Hills are about east of Stoke-on-Trent and about west of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, just south of the A52 road and north of the Churnet Valley. The are ...
in Staffordshire, England * Weaver Lake (disambiguation) *
Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge The Weaver's Mill Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The , bridge was built in 1878 by B. C. Carter and J. F. Stauffer across Conestoga River. It is also known as ...
in Pennsylvania, US *
Weavers, New South Wales Weavers is a historical locality of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the City of Hawkesbury The City of Hawkesbury is a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, part of which is at the fring ...
, Australia *
Weaver building The Weaver building was a flour mill and corn storage building which formerly stood alongside the half-tide basin of the North Dock in Swansea, South Wales. Standing at six storeys high, 80 ft by 40 ft by 112 ft, with its lower f ...
, Swansea *
Weaver Siding, New Brunswick Weaver Siding is a settlement in Northumberland County, New Brunswick Northumberland County is located in northeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Geography Northumberland County is covered by thick forests, whose products stimulate the economy. T ...
* 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 Picatinny ...
, 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) A weevers, or Weeverfish, are a group of fish species in the family Trachinidae. Weever may also refer to: People * Guy E. L. de Weever (1907–1971), Guyanese educator * John Weever John Weever (1576–1632) was an English antiquary and poe ...
{{disambiguation, geo