webber

Noun

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:
   • The eightleg webbers caused that fear in him. - 1987, CD Moulton, Heku:
   • Some webbers are drab, colorless, and small, preferring to spin their webs in dark cellars. - 2000, Peter Loewer, The Wild Gardener: On Flowers and Foliage for the Natural Border, page 130:
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,...
   • 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...
   • 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. - 1907 January 9, “Suspenders and Belts”,...
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:
   • 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. - 1913, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor...
   • Coil spring setters install springs after webbers have tacked the webbing on which the springs rest. - 1944, Occupational Briefs on America's Major Job Fields, page 59:
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...
   • 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. - 1936, Canadian Textile Journal - Volume 53, page 35:
   • Random webs are preferably produced by the air-dynamic method on pneumatic webbers. - 1990, Jarmila Švédová, Industrial Textiles, page 97:
5. A creature with webbed feet.
   • All the Swimmers are webbers. - 1878, Norman Allison Calkins, Abby Morton Diaz, Swimming Birds, page 2:
6. A member of a food web.
   • Many brown food webbers eat a mixture of foods—including each other! - 2020, Leslie Bulion, Leaf Litter Critters:
   • Marine food webbers gobble their fill. - 2023, Leslie Bulion, Galápagos: Islands of Change:
7. 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. - 1996, National Association of Science Writers, Newsletter - Volumes...
   • So, even if you use JPEG images, their beauty will be lost on webbers having Windows systems, until the JDK is updated. - 1996, Aaron E. Walsh, Foundations of Java Programming for the World Wide Web, page 206:
   • Netscape is the web browser used by an estimated 70% of the US isp webbers, and can be enabled to read Java. - 1997, What the Small Office Practitioner Must Know about Legal Resources and Client Development on the...
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. - 1995, Stuart H. Harris, Gayle Kidder, Netscape Quick Tour for Macintosh, page 90:
   • Figure 2 represents a possible future scenario, where the webber-analyst grabs and glues bits of model that might be deemed sufficiently appropriate. - 2001, John D. Haynes, Internet Management Issues, page 216:
   • (see title) - 2015, Tonya Terry, Excellent Webbers: Website Making Has Never Been So Easy: