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wool comber

wool comber is the alternative form of woolcomber.

Meaning of woolcomber

Noun

woolcomber (plural woolcombers)

  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; […]1816, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Forms of wool comber

pluralwool combers

Questions about wool comber

What is wool comber the alternative form of?
Wool comber is the alternative form of woolcomber.

Words near wool comber in the dictionary

  1. wool classer
  2. wool classers
  3. wool classing
  4. wool clip
  5. wool clips
  6. wool comber
  7. wool combers
  8. wool fat
  9. wool grease
  10. wool moth
  11. wool moths

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