plaiter

Where the Glosser says thus; "Papus Ben Juda was the husband of Mary, the plaiter of women's hair; and when he went out of his house into the street, he locked his door upon his wife, that she might not speak with anybody; which, indeed, he ought not to have done: and hence sprang a difference between them, and she broke out into adulteries."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The plaiter of mats, notwithstanding he be a weaver, they would not employ in a silk manufactory.

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

The first amongst those who have shown real power is Pier Pander, the cripple son of a Frisian mat-plaiter, who came over from Rome (where he had gone to complete his studies) at the special invitation of the Queen to model a bust of the Prince Consort,

Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough

Sumangala's mother, daughter of poor people, wife of a rush-plaiter, Sāvatthī

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

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.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

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.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The name Magdalene may however mean 'the twiner or plaiter of hair,' and this interpretation possibly induced

The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

"Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter."

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

'Oh!' cried the little mat-plaiter, 'that is our dear old dog, Scarammuccia.

After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy.

A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature 1853