woolworker

English

Etymology

From wool +‎ worker.

Noun

woolworker (plural woolworkers)

1. A person who works with wool.
   • 2014, Richard M. Swiderski, Anthrax: A History, page 82:

     In Bradford, England, during 1870s, as there was a search to explain the mysterious deaths of woolworkers, the newspapers speculated that it might be bubonic plague.