woolworker

noun

woolworker

noun

Etymology From wool + worker.

1

A person who works with wool.

In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague.2014, Richard M. Swiderski, Anthrax: A History, page 82:

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