woolder

English

Etymology

woold +‎ -er

Noun

woolder (plural woolders)

1. (nautical) A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.
2. (ropemaking) One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woolder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)