See willyer on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Related to the words woollier and wool.", "forms": [ { "form": "willyers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "willyer (plural willyers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1913, Charles Watney, Industrial Warfare, the Aims and Claims of Capital and Labour:", "text": "Though Socialism is rampant amongst certain of the Yorkshire wool workers, there have been singularly few disturbances in this trade, and the Masters' Associations were more or less moribund until 1906, when there was a sudden strike of willyers and fettlers, which had the effect of stimulating them.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "One who operates a device for willying." ], "id": "en-willyer-en-noun-w3ad3Wiv", "links": [ [ "willying", "willying" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(now rare, obsolete or historical) One who operates a device for willying." ], "tags": [ "archaic", "historical", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "willyer" }
{ "etymology_text": "Related to the words woollier and wool.", "forms": [ { "form": "willyers", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "willyer (plural willyers)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms with historical senses", "English terms with obsolete senses", "English terms with quotations", "English terms with rare senses", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1913, Charles Watney, Industrial Warfare, the Aims and Claims of Capital and Labour:", "text": "Though Socialism is rampant amongst certain of the Yorkshire wool workers, there have been singularly few disturbances in this trade, and the Masters' Associations were more or less moribund until 1906, when there was a sudden strike of willyers and fettlers, which had the effect of stimulating them.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "One who operates a device for willying." ], "links": [ [ "willying", "willying" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(now rare, obsolete or historical) One who operates a device for willying." ], "tags": [ "archaic", "historical", "obsolete" ] } ], "word": "willyer" }
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