[f. BRAID v.1 + -ER1.]
a. One who makes or applies braids. b. A part of a sewing machine, used for stitching braid on cloth. c. A braiding-machine.
1866. Tomlinson, Cycl. Useful Arts, III. 622. Subsidiary pieces of apparatus … the hemmer, the binder, the braider.
1874. Knight, Amer. Mech. Dict., I. 355. The sizes of flat braiders most in use are those braiding 53 and 65 strands.
