woolworker
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
woolworker (plural woolworkers)
- A person who works with wool.
- 2014, Richard M. Swiderski, Anthrax: A History, page 82:
- In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague.