Meanings
nounwillyer (plural willyers)
plural willyers
- archaichistoricalobsoleteOne who operates a device for willying.
1 more example
Though Socialism is rampant amongst certain of the Yorkshire wool workers, there have been singularly few disturbances in this trade, and the Masters' Associations were more or less moribund until 1906, when there was a sudden strike of willyers and fettlers, which had the effect of stimulating them.
1913, Charles Watney, Industrial Warfare, the Aims and Claims of Capital and Labour
Origin
Related to the words woollier and wool.
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willyer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/willyer
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “willyer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/willyer.
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