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.
