How To Use plaiter In A Sentence
- Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
- Sumangala's mother, daughter of poor people, wife of a rush-plaiter, Sāvatthī Psalms of the Sisters
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
- 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
- The name Magdalene may however mean 'the twiner or plaiter of hair,' and this interpretation possibly induced The Treasury of Sacred Song
- 'Oh!' cried the little mat-plaiter, 'that is our dear old dog, Scarammuccia. After Dark
