| 单词 | worsted merchant | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasworsted merchant  a.   General attributive, as  worsted factory,  worsted merchant,  worsted mill,  worsted trade, etc. ΚΠ ?c1480    E. Paston in  Paston Lett. & Papers 		(2004)	 I. 639  				On Boolt, aworstede [emended in ed. to a worstede] marchant. 1679    J. Somerville Memorie Somervilles 		(1815)	 II. 380  				Anna Hope, that then keeped the greatest, if not the only, worset shop in Edenburgh. 1794    J. Tuke Gen. View Agric. N. Riding Yorks. 92  				At Masham there is a cotton and a worsted mill. 1794    St James's Chron. 27 May  				The capital newly erected water-mill, and worsted factory at Ottery St. Mary's. 1805    J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 156  				The state of the worsted manufacture. 1809    Universal Mag. Oct. 347/1  				The writer..has improved the worsted machinery, so that he spins twice as fine and double the quantity. 1830    W. Parson  & W. White Directory Leeds 426  				Worsted Dealers. 1835    A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 68  				The worsted trade of England. 1836    W. White Hist. Norfolk 96  				Two worsted mills at Norwich. 1843    Penny Cycl. XXVII. 554/1  				A worsted factory in the north. 1858    P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products  				Worsted-repository,..a shop where fancy knitting-wools are sold. 1880    G. Smith Cowper vii. 100  				The letter slides from spiritual despair to the worsted-merchant. 1940    Chambers's Techn. Dict. 509/2  				London-shrunk (Textiles), a term used in the woollen and worsted trades to indicate that a fabric has been specially treated in order to prevent shrinkage during make-up and when worn. 2003    Spin-Off Summer 44/2  				Then I remembered seeing Jaquie Teal demonstrate what she called a modified worsted technique. 2015    S. Dietz Brit. Entrepreneurship in Poland 		(2016)	 v. 99  				Local industrialists spoke with one voice,..emphasising the ways the worsted factory would consolidate existing industry. < as lemmas | 
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