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n. - A woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; A tightly twisted woolen yarn spun from long-staple wool.

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Usage examples (38)
  • He wore a worsted suit
  • Should the Turks be at all worsted, which is probable, of course we must increase our assistance.
  • These will be from Ann Budd’s Getting Started Knitting Socks, the 5-Stitches-Per-Inch socks in worsted-weight yarn.
  • The English-Latin dictionary also had a translation for woosted: woosted being the old form of "worsted", the spinning term.
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