worsted

• “Shakspeare has not been very courteous towards the _worsted gentry_; had he lived in our times, they might have _worsted_ him for a libel: he says in King Lear, "A base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three suited, hundred pound, filthy, worsted stocking knave.”

  The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829

• “For the first lesson I had two balls, one made in worsted, large and soft, the other a bullet.”

  The Story of My Life

• “* Yet a lady of not less than fifty years of age, placed herself at the same time under his instruction, and executed a large piece of worsted from a good mezzotinto print – a cupid and lion.”

  Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor

• “These will be from Ann Budd’s Getting Started Knitting Socks, the 5-Stitches-Per-Inch socks in worsted-weight yarn.”

  The Fiber Fulcrum – Shawls, Stoles, Scarves & Socks « Looking for Roots

• “For many years, worsted-weight acrylic yarn was called 4-ply acrylic, but is increasingly known as worsted, because a 4-ply yarn might not be worsted weight if the four plies used to create it are not the size required to make that your weight.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Passion for Knitting

• “On such occasions I would recommend the following method: -- First, draw the fowl, reserving the gizzard and liver to be tucked under the wings; truss the fowl with skewers, and tie it to the end of a skein of worsted, which is to be fastened to a nail stuck in the chimney-piece, so that the fowl may dangle rather close to the fire, in order to roast it.”

  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes

• “Should the Turks be at all worsted, which is probable, of course we must increase our assistance.”

  The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861

• “In no description of manufacture connected with the woollen trade has machinery been more fertile in improvements than in what may be termed the worsted stuff trade.”

  Rides on Railways

• “The long is used for worsted, which is finished when it leaves the loom; the short for cloth, which is compacted together, increased in bulk and diminished in breadth, by fulling; that is, so beating as to take advantage of the serrated edges of the wool which lead it to felt together.”

  Rides on Railways

• “The English-Latin dictionary also had a translation for woosted: woosted being the old form of "worsted", the spinning term.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

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