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woolworking

woolworking noun: the practice of working with wool.

Noun

woolworking (uncountable)

  1. The practice of working with wool.
    • Gradually, workers were leaving woolworking for the cleaner and more agreeable work in cotton.1978, Dale Miquelon, Dugard of Rouen, page 15

Origin of woolworking

From wool + working.

Questions about woolworking

What does woolworking mean?
Woolworking means the practice of working with wool.
What part of speech is woolworking?
Woolworking is a noun.

Words near woolworking in the dictionary

  1. Woolwine
  2. Woolwines
  3. woolwork
  4. woolworker
  5. woolworkers
  6. woolworking
  7. woolworks
  8. Woolworth gun
  9. Woolworth guns
  10. Woolworth's
  11. wooly

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