Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of separating the fibers of wool, especially long-fibered wool, and laying them parallel as in wool-carding. See
comb and combing.
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Examples
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Mr. Jowett wants the Home Secretary to withdraw the permission he gave some time ago "to employ women on the night-turn in wool-combing."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various
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These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin.
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912
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A carding cylinder had been invented by Paul as far back as 1748, and now came into general use, while several wool-combing machines were invented in 1792 and 1793.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904
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Eisinga, who constructed the Franeker planetarium in the intervals of wool-combing.
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He thinks he now sees a prospect of getting his livelihood by a method which will suit him better than wool-combing work has hitherto done, exercising more of his faculties and sparing his health.
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891
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I had also the privilege of seeing the great wool-combing factory of our countryman Mr. Jonathan Holden, for upwards of forty years a citizen of Rheims.
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine,
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine,
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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My first visit was to the house where Shakespeare was born, and where, according to tradition, he was brought up to his father's craft of wool-combing.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821
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My first visit was to the house where Shakspeare was born, and where, according to tradition, he was brought up to his father’s craft of wool-combing.
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