[f. WEAVE v.2 + -ER1.] A horse that ‘weaves’ or rolls the neck and body from side to side.
1847. T. Brown, Modern Farriery, 387. Animals of an impatient, irritable temper,… will sometimes keep moving their head, neck, and body to and fro, like the motion of a weaver’s shuttle: these have been called weavers.
1863. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia’s L., xi. T’ horse was a weaver, if iver one was.
1880. W. Day, Racehorse in Training, i. 6. If a horse is a weaver put him into a box, for in it he is more contented and often forgets his tricks.
