woolcomberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

woolcomber (複数形 woolcombers)

1. A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.
   • 1816, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

     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; […]