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ˈwool-comb
[OE. wullcamb = OHG. wollakampâ (MHG. wollechampe, wollekam, G. wollkamm), ON. ull(ar)kambr (Sw. ullkam. Da. uldkam): see comb n.1]
The toothed instrument used in carding wool by hand; later also, a machine to perform the same operation.
a1100Gerefa in Anglia (1886) IX. 263 Wulcamb, cip, amb. 1418Bury Wills (Camden) 3, j. par de wollecombes. 1533Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 451 Ane par of woll camis. 1613in Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1792) I. 173 An heckell with a pair of clatting wool cammis. 1780Edmondson Her. II. Alph. Arms, Bromley, Sa. three wool-combs ar. 1797W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. III. 125 Bishop Blaze, to whom their traditions ascribe the beneficial invention of the wool⁓comb. 1854R. S. Surtees Handley Cr. xv, Just as if I'd had it teased with a pair of wool-combs. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 111 Withal the wool-comb's sound within the fleece Began and grew. |