woolcomber

noun

woolcomber

noun

Etymology From wool + comber.

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:

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