woolworking

noun

woolworking

noun

Etymology From wool + working.

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:

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