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ˈcloth-ˌworker
A maker or manufacturer of woollen cloth.
Cloth-workers' Company, the twelfth of the great livery companies of the City of London.
1528(Jan. 18) Charter to ‘clothworkers’ of City of London. 1549Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 2 §9 The Wardens of the Clothworkers, or two of them at the least. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxxv. 193 It..is knowen of the Clothworkers and Drapers. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Taylors Pastorall Wks. iii. 54/2 No Cloth no Clothier, no Clothier no Cloth⁓worker, Fuller, Tucker, Shearman, Draper. 1666Pepys Diary 6 Sept., To see Clothworkers' Hall on fire these three days and nights. 1839Penny Cycl. XIV. 118/2 In the City of London there are 89 companies..the first twelve are called the Twelve Great Companies..12, Cloth-workers.
So ˈcloth-ˌworking.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. i. (Arb.) 44 Let clothe⁓workinge be renewed. 1611Cotgr., Draperie, draperie; cloath-selling, cloth-working. |