Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker of cloth.
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Examples
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A cloth-worker in Yorkshire, by carelessness or inadvertence, raises the nap of a given fabric a shade above the regulation height.
Men in the Making Ambrose Shepherd
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Banqueting-house at Whitehall, and many other well known edifices, was a cloth-worker; and he himself was also destined originally for a mechanical employment.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various
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Edward Osborne, the founder of the dukedom of Leeds, was apprentice to William Hewet, a rich cloth-worker on London
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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For when the Duke of Monmouth landed in Dorsetshire it was not the dwellers in great cities or the intriguers of the Court that followed him chiefly to their undoing; it was the peasant who left his plough and the cloth-worker his loom.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899
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'I have followed the guidance of my conscience, my Lord,' said the venerable cloth-worker of Wellington, to whom he spoke.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Artevelde, a cloth-worker, had been several times over-sheriff of Ghent, and his mother, Mary van Groete, was great-aunt to the grandfather of the illustrious publicist called in history Grotius.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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Many wire brushes and metal substitutes have been tried to take the place of nature's gift to the cloth-worker, the teazel, but nothing has been invented to replace with full satisfaction that wonderful scratcher.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Ah! no wonder that Kit Cowper, the cloth-worker, groaned to see that bright face pass from his ninepin alley; but it was the way of the world, or rather the will of
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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Providence to the cloth-worker, that the child should fulfil her destiny.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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BATH (_Marquis of_), from Sir Rowland Heyward, cloth-worker 1570
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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