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woolcombers

woolcombers is the plural 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

Questions about woolcombers

What is woolcombers the plural of?
Woolcombers is the plural of woolcomber.

Words near woolcombers in the dictionary

  1. woolclasser
  2. woolclassers
  3. woolclassing
  4. woolcomb
  5. woolcomber
  6. woolcombers
  7. woolcombing
  8. woolcombs
  9. Woolcott
  10. Woolcotts
  11. woold

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