"weigher" meaning in All languages combined

See weigher on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈweɪ.ɚ/ [General-American], /ˈweɪ.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-weigher.wav [Southern-England] Forms: weighers [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪə(ɹ) Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Germanic *weganą Proto-West Germanic *wegan Old English wegan Middle English weyen English weigh English -er English weigher From weigh + -er. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|weigh|-er|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti Proto-Germanic *weganą Proto-West Germanic *wegan Old English wegan Middle English weyen English weigh English -er English weigher [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*weganą", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*wegan", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "wegan", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "weyen", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "weigh", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-er", "status" : "ambiguous", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "weigher", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="weigher"> From weigh + -er. Head templates: {{en-noun}} weigher (plural weighers)
  1. One who or something that weighs.
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  2. One who or something that weighs.
    A person employed at a dock to weigh incoming goods.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: check weigher Translations (one who weighs): ζυγοστάτης (zugostátēs) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), punnitsija (Finnish), ζυγιστής (zygistís) [masculine] (Greek), ζυγίστρια (zygístria) [feminine] (Greek), весовщик (vesovščik) [masculine] (Russian), весовщица (vesovščica) [feminine] (Russian), вага́р (vahár) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'one who weighs': 50 50

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.