1 vefr
m. gen. vefjar; pl. vefir, gen. vefja; acc. pl. vefi, Rb. 358: [A. S., Engl., and Germ. web; Dan. væv]:—a web in the loom; ef vefr stendr uppi, N. G. L. i. 211, Js. 78; þar vóru konur ok höfðu færðan upp vef … rifu þær ofan vefinn ok í sundr, Nj. 277, 279, Fbr. 58; ek þóttumk uppi eiga vef, en þat var lín-vefr, hann var grár at lit, mér þótti kljáðr vera vefrinn … féll af einn kléinn af miðjum vefnum, Fms. xi. 49; en er vefr hennar féll, þá var vaðmálit fjórum álnum lengra en hón átti ván á, Bs. i. 367; einarðr vefr, Stj. 416: phrases, hafa uppi vef, slá vef, verpa vef (Darr.), kljá vef. The chief passages referring to the ancient weaving, are the Nj. l. c. with the poem Darraðar-ljóð, and the Jómsv. S. (Fms. xi. 49): the old upright loom is sketched in Olavii Reise-bog, and in Worsaae, No. 558; in Icel. it was (about A. D. 1780) displaced by the horizontal hand-loom (since called in Icel. the ‘Danish loom’), which is now in use; the appendages to an old loom were the vefjar-hræll, -hleinar, -ló, -skeið, -rifr, -vinda, see Björn.
2 vefr
2. any textile stuff; dýrir vefir, Al. 85: esp. of brocade, altaris-klæði annat með sæi annat með ‘vef,’ Vm. 116; fjarg-vefr, guð-vefr, sigr-vefr, qq. v.
3 vefr
COMPDS: vefjar-hökull, -kápa, -möttull, -skikkja, -upphlutr, m. a costly woven cope, mantle …, Vm. 68, 126, Nj. 24, Ld. 244, 328, Js. 78. vefjar-stofa, u, f. a weaving-room, Nj. 209.