woolworker
English
Etymology
wool + worker
Noun
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.
- 2014, Richard M. Swiderski, Anthrax: A History (page 82)