How to pronounce“worsted”in English
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Definitions of “worsted”
Yarn made from long strands of wool.
“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.”
The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
“[T]he undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark, forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated “the kitchen,” wherein sat a slatternly girl in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.”
simple past and past participle of worst
Defeated, overcome.
“The worsted army fled in disarray.”