What does woolding mean?

woolding

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

present participle and gerund of woold

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"1774 August, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World They[the people of Erromango] separate it [their hair] into small locks, which they woold or cue round with the rind of a slender plant, down to about an inch of the ends; and, as the hair grows, the woolding is continued."

wooldings (plural)

woolder

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