The plaiter of mats, notwithstanding he be a weaver, they would not employ in a silk manufactory. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
"Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter.". From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
'Oh!' cried the little mat-plaiter, 'that is our dear old dog, Scarammuccia. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
Sumangala's mother, daughter of poor people, wife of a rush-plaiter, Sāvatthī. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
The name Magdalene may however mean 'the twiner or plaiter of hair,' and this interpretation possibly induced. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
She, too, having made her resolve under former Buddhas, and heaping up good in this rebirth and that, was born under this Buddha-dispensation in a poor family at Sāvatthī, and was married to a rush-plaiter. From Wordnik.com. [Psalms of the Sisters] Reference
Even the braid itself is hand-plaited in eight threads over a half-cylinder of basket-work, which the plaiter holds on her knee, tossing the clicking bobbins from one side to the other, and pinning up the finished braid with swift dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [High Albania] Reference
Dr. Lightfoot, finding in some of the Talmudists 'writings that Mary Magdalene signified Mary the plaiter of hair, thinks it applicable to her, she having been noted, in the days of her iniquity and infamy, for that plaiting of hair which is opposed to modest apparel, 1 Tim. ii. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
A plaiter of women's hair; who they say was the wife of Papus Ben Juda, but an adulteress. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Satda, namely, Mary, the plaiter of women's hair; as they say in Pombeditha, she departed from her husband. '". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
"Rabh Bibai, at a time when the angel of death was with him, said to his officer, Go, bring me Mary the plaiter of women's hair. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Talmudists, a plaiter of hair. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Sewing machine plaiter, White & Bowhannan 212,417. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures] Reference
A leg-plaiter. ". From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
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