Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who cards wool. See
wool-carding .
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Examples
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He shall no longer be a wool-carder, for such are not now men of mark.
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He preached a sermon against the pretended reformation, to prove it destitute of a lawful mission; it being begun at Meaux, by Peter Clark, a wool-carder; at
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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The poor wool-carder of Meaux was succeeded by more illustrious victims.
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It was not long before the wool-carder was apprehended.
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[Sidenote: The wool-carder, Jean Leclerc, tears down a papal bull.] [Sidenote: His barbarous sentence.]
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He learned the clothier's trade, he was apprenticed to a wool-carder, and he served his time at the woodpile, in the harvest field, and as chore boy.
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A simple wool-carder, Pierre Leclerc, brother of one of the first martyrs of Protestant France, was called from the humble pursuits of the artisan to the responsible post of pastor.
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The part which, in Brittany, is played by the bazvalon, the village tailor, is taken in our part of the country by the hemp-dresser and the wool-carder, two professions which are unusually combined in one.
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He had not been a mill boy, nor lived in a log-cabin, nor split rails (which was to his discredit), but he had been an apprentice to a wool-carder in Livingston County,
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The cook-stove will follow the loom and wheel, the wool-carder and shears.
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