Waulking

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The work by which cloth is waulked.

    "But in the Outer Hebrides in particular, this form of work song still existed, attached to its original function, well into the 20th century, for waulkings continued to be practised as a communal task by women in their homes until the 1940s."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of waulk form-of, gerund, participle, present

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fullfullwalk

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"But in the Outer Hebrides in particular, this form of work song still existed, attached to its original function, well into the 20th century, for waulkings continued to be practised as a communal task by women in their homes until the 1940s."

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