Woolcomber
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.
"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; […]"
Example
More examples"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; […]"
Etymology
From wool + comber.
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