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单词 wool-comb
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wool-combn.

Brit. /ˈwʊlkəʊm/, U.S. /ˈwʊlˌkoʊm/
Etymology: Old English wullcamb = Old High German wollakampâ (Middle High German wollechampe , wollekam , German wollkamm ), Old Norse ull(ar)kambr (Swedish ullkam . Danish uldkam ): see comb n.
The toothed instrument used in carding wool by hand; later also, a machine to perform the same operation.
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a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 263 Wulcamb, cip, amb.
1418 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 3 j. par de wollecombes.
1533 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 451 Ane par of woll camis.
1613 in Trans. Soc. Antiq. Scot. (1792) 1 173 An heckell with a pair of clatting wool cammis.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. Alphabet of Arms Bromley, Sa. three wool-combs ar.
1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 3 125 Bishop Blaze, to whom their traditions ascribe the beneficial invention of the wool~comb.
1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. xii. 232 Just as if I'd had it brushed with a pair of wool-combs.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 111 Withal the wool-comb's sound within the fleece Began and grew.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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