waulking
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The Walker, Fuller, and Tucker, all did very much the same work of "waulking," or trampling, the cloth.
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The Walker, Fuller, and Tucker, all did very much the same work of "waulking," or trampling, the cloth.
— The Romance of Names -
And so we went into all this perplexity of Highland pedigree like old wives at a waulking, forgetting utterly that what we began to quarrel about was the more serious charge of lying.
— John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn -
After weaving the goods are "waulked" -- milled or felted -- with the bare feet, accompanied by singing the waulking song and beating time with the feet.
— Textiles and Clothing -
_waulking the cloth_, v. 178, n.
— Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. - I hid a smile at the mention of wool waulking. — Dragonfly in Amber
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