Meanings
nounwoolcomber (plural woolcombers)
plural woolcombers
- 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
Origin
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woolcomber. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woolcomber
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“woolcomber.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/woolcomber. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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