ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Woolcomber

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Woolcomber is a noun meaning A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.

Meaning

A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.

Example Sentences

Leo, who, from the bulk of his body, and the dulness of his mind, was surnamed the Ajax of the East, had deserted his original trade, of a woolcomber, to exercise, with much less skill and success, the military profession; […]

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Related dictionary entries include woolcombing, woolcomb, comber, woolwasher, carding-comb, woolwinder.

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