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kembsters

kembsters is the plural of kembster.

Meaning of kembster

Noun

kembster (plural kembsters)

  1. (archaic, historical) A woman who cleans or combs out wool
    • A married woman who supplemented her family's income by brewing ale or combing wool for yarn would not have been identified in the records as a brewster or kembster.2005, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Working Women in English Society, 1300-1620, page 15

Questions about kembsters

What is kembsters the plural of?
Kembsters is the plural of kembster.

Words near kembsters in the dictionary

  1. kemboed
  2. kemboing
  3. kembos
  4. kembs
  5. kembster
  6. kembsters
  7. Kemelman
  8. kemenche
  9. kemenches
  10. Kemener
  11. Kemerer

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