Definition of Get weaving

1. Verb. Start to be active. "Get cracking, please!"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Get Weaving

get to know
get to one's feet
get to the bottom of
get to the point
get together
get turned around
get under one's skin
get under someone's skin
get underway
get up
get up on the wrong side of the bed
get up someone's nose
get up the yard
get up to
get up with the chickens
get weaving (current term)
get well
get well soon
get what's coming to one
get wind
get wind of
get wise
get with
get with child
get with the program
get with the programme
get word
get worse
get you

Literary usage of Get weaving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism by William Cunningham (1908)
"4d. a day when wages were so that we (weavers) could get a good living; at that tune people would not work outwork, if they could get Weaving. ..."

2. Highways and Byways of the Pacific Coast by Clifton Johnson (1908)
"You see a tall tree partly undermined by water would get weaving in the wind and loosen up a lot of soil that would wash away in no time then. ..."

3. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times by William Cunningham (1892)
"4rf. a day when wages were BO that we [weavers] could get a living; at that time people would not work out-work, if they could get weaving. ..."

4. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture by Jamaica Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, Dept. of Agriculture, William Fawcett (1906)
"To get weaving yarns spun for me I applied to the spinners of gas mantle yarns, or of ramie thread, to worsted spinners, flax spinners, and jute spinners. ..."

5. Among the Forest Trees, Or, How the Bushman Family Got Their Homes: Being a by Joseph Henry Hilts (1888)
"We will be able to get weaving done near home," said John. " Scotchman, your granny," said Bet. " Have you forgotten already, that you have a sister who can ..."

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