Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Smooth wool cloth”7 letters
02“Smooth wool fabric”7 letters
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