Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of cleansing wool, cotton, or the like, with a willy, or willow.
- noun Same as 1st
Willow , 2.
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- noun The process of
cleansing wool ,cotton , etc. with awilly , orwillow .
Etymologies
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willy + -ing
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Examples
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In the scouring room she saw the wool washing and passing forward through the long tanks of alkaline baths; and in the "willying" house her lungs were filled by the dust that the great machines cleaned from the freshly dried fleeces.
Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876
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