English

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Etymology

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From wool +‎ worker.

Noun

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woolworker (plural woolworkers)

  1. A person who works with wool.
    • 2014, Richard M. Swiderski, Anthrax: A History, page 82:
      In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague.