Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woolcomber

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: wool-comber
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.

Example Sentences

"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; […]"

Etymology

From wool + comber.

Inflected Forms

woolcombers (plural)

Questions

What does woolcomber mean?: A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.
Where does woolcomber come from?: From wool + comber.

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