woolding

English

Verb

woolding

  1. present participle and gerund of woold

Noun

woolding (plural wooldings)

  1. (nautical) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, or rope-like material.
    • 1774 August, James Cook, [[s:A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World/Volume II/Chapter VI|A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World]
      They[the people of Erromango] separate it [their hair] into small locks, which they woold or cue round with the rind of a slender plant, down to about an inch of the ends; and, as the hair grows, the woolding is continued.
  2. (nautical) A rope used for binding masts and spars.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “woolding”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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