This rapier is for drawing-in a weft yarn into a shed of a weaving loom (2), along a drawing-in path. The rapier includes a rapier head (206) mounted at one end of the rapier, said rapier head extending along a main longitudinal axis of the rapier and being driven, along the drawing-in path, by a drive. The rapier also includes a clamp (320) for catching a weft yarn, said clamp being mounted in the rapier head, being operable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The rapier also includes an actuator (208) mounted on the rapier body for actuating the clamp and a movement transforming mechanism (260-328) for transforming an output movement of the actuator into an opening or a closing movement of the clamp. The actuator is an electric motor (208). Moreover, the output movement of the motor is a rotation around a rotation axis (A208) parallel to the main longitudinal axis (A20) of the rapier (20).
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