woolcomber

English

Etymology

From wool +‎ comber.

Noun

woolcomber (plural woolcombers)

1. A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.
   • 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:

     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; […]