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woolcomber

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A person employed to comb wool in order to disentangle and straighten out the fibres.

Examples

“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; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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