Woolworker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who works with wool.

    "In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague."

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"In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague."

Etymology

From wool + worker.

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