plaiter
WordNet
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(n)
plaiter
someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Plaiter
One who, or that which, plaits.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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(n)
plaiter
One who or that which plaits or braids; especially, an implement for producing plaits of regular size, as in cloth.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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(ns)
Plaiter
one who plaits or braids: a machine for making plaits, as in cloth
Etymology
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. pleit, ploit (Fr. pli)—L. plicāre, -ātum, to fold.
Usage in literature
As a boy he worked in a silk-factory, and as a straw-plaiter and errand boy. "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature" by