Meaning of Waver | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A river in northern Cumbria, England, which flows into the Solway Firth.
2. An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
3. One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
4. A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
   dated, dialectal
5. A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
   figuratively
6. A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
7. A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
   figuratively
8. A tool used to make hair wavy.
9. In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
   historical
10. Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“No a bit butterflee on its silent waver, meeting the murmur of the straightforward bee.”

“By turns she sat watching the waver of the candles in the draught, and walked to and fro between the bed and the washhand-stand to keep herself warm.”

“I hear the soldiers talk as I ride by, "There goes the old man. All's right." Not a waver, doubt, or hesitation when I order, and men march to certain death without a murmur if I call on them, because they know I value their lives as much as my own.”

“"Does she mean to accept him?" asked Travice. "Well, she's on the waver. She does not dislike him, and she does not particularly like him. He's too old for her; he's twenty years older than Liz; but it's her first offer, and young women are apt to think when they get that, they had better accept it, lest they may never get another."”

“I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.”

“The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.”

“Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.”

“The vast concourse of people swung their hats and shouted—the windows and house-tops in the wide vicinity burst into a snow-storm of waving handkerchiefs, and the wavers of the same mingled their cheers with those of the masses below. It was a stirring spectacle.”

“[N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.”

“It is a very ordinary Copſe vvhich vvill not afford three or four Firſts, that is, Beſts; fourteen Seconds; tvvelve Thirds; eight VVavers, &c. according to vvhich proportions the ſizes of young Trees in Copſing are to ſucceed one another.”

“In some parts of this County, considerable pains seem to be taken in the use of the Falling Axe[…], to form the stools or stumps left in the ground in Spring Woods, rather round at top, to shoot off the wet and preserve the butt from decay, where young shoots or wavers are expected from them: […] the sooner the young waver, or wavers especially, if more than one are left for Trees, attaches itself to and entirely depends on one of the healthy lateral roots[…], by the entire decay of the core or centre, the better is the future prospect of such wavers, as to making good Trees, […]”

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