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Word entry · 7 letters

worsted

Best crossword clue

"Smooth wool cloth"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈwʊs.tɪd/Part of speech nounSorted deorstwStarts with WEnds with D2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; woven of worsted yarns

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English worstede, worsted, from Worstede (now Worstead; Old English *Wurϸestede), a town in Norfolk, England.

Used in a sentence

  • An old ſet-ſtitch’d chair, valanced and fringed around with party-colour’d worſted bobs, ſtood at the bed’s head, oppoſite to the ſide where my father’s head reclined.
  • [T]he kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again; […]
  • Finally he took a ball of worsted and tied strings of it across the back passage and across the opposite door.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Smooth wool cloth7 letters
02Smooth wool fabric7 letters

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