wool-combing

Mr. Jowett wants the Home Secretary to withdraw the permission he gave some time ago "to employ women on the night-turn in wool-combing."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917 Various

These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin.

The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War Carter Godwin Woodson 1912

A carding cylinder had been invented by Paul as far back as 1748, and now came into general use, while several wool-combing machines were invented in 1792 and 1793.

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Edward Potts Cheyney 1904

Eisinga, who constructed the Franeker planetarium in the intervals of wool-combing.

A Wanderer in Holland 1903

He thinks he now sees a prospect of getting his livelihood by a method which will suit him better than wool-combing work has hitherto done, exercising more of his faculties and sparing his health.

Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

I had also the privilege of seeing the great wool-combing factory of our countryman Mr. Jonathan Holden, for upwards of forty years a citizen of Rheims.

East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine,

Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863

This was the ease with the self-acting mule, the wool-combing machine, the planing machine, the slotting machine,

Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858

My first visit was to the house where Shakespeare was born, and where, according to tradition, he was brought up to his father's craft of wool-combing.

The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

My first visit was to the house where Shakspeare was born, and where, according to tradition, he was brought up to his father’s craft of wool-combing.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002