Skip to content

plaiter

noun

Someone who plaits.

“She's a very fast plaiter”

Scrabble 9

Ask AI about this wordChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

Meanings

nounplaiter (plural plaiters)

plural plaiters

Someone who plaits.
She's a very fast plaiter
A machine that plaits.
The peculiarity of this invention consists in a means for varying the angle at which the plaiting-blade is held in the plaiter without varying the position of the entire instrument upon the sewing-machine.
1873, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

Origin

From plait + -er.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with plaiter

later greater creator locator vibrator translator spectator terminator cater crater narrator slater curator gator mater alligator waiter dictator skater incubator equator traitor updater rotator

Sounds the same

Anagrams

replait partile

Cite this entry

APA

plaiter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaiter

MLA

“plaiter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaiter. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plaiter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plaiter.

Source: plaiter on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.