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worsted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worst \Worst\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worsted; p. pr. & vb. n. Worsting.] [See Worse, v. t. &
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] To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit.
The . . . Philistines were worsted by the captivated ark.
--South.
Worsted \Worst"ed\ (?; 277), n. [From Worsted, now spelled Worstead, a town in Norfolk, England; for Worthstead. See Worth, n., and Stead.]
Well-twisted yarn spun of long-staple wool which has been combed to lay the fibers parallel, used for carpets, cloth, hosiery, gloves, and the like.
Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woolen fabric made from twisted yarn, late 13c., from Worstead (Old English Wurðestede), town in Norfolk where the cloth originally was made.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 yarn made from long strands of wool. 2 The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn. Etymology 2
defeated, overcome. v
(en-past of: worst)
WordNet
n. a woolen fabric with a hard textured surface and no nap; woven of worsted yarns
a tightly twisted woolen yarn
Wikipedia
Worsted ( or ) is a type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead, a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, together with North Walsham and Aylsham, formed a manufacturing centre for yarn and cloth in the 12th century, when pasture enclosure and liming rendered the East Anglian soil too rich for the older agrarian sheep breeds. In the same period, many weavers from Flanders moved to Norfolk. "Worsted" yarns/fabrics are distinct from woollens (though both are made from sheep's wool): the former is considered stronger, finer, smoother, and harder than the latter.
Worsted was made from the long-staple pasture wool from sheep breeds such as Teeswaters, Old Leicester Longwool and Romney Marsh. Pasture wool was not carded; instead it was washed, gilled and combed (using heated long-tooth metal combs), oiled and finally spun. When woven, worsteds were scoured but not fulled.
Worsted wool fabric is typically used in the making of tailored garments such as suits, as opposed to woollen wool, which is used for knitted items such as sweaters.
Usage examples of "worsted".
He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.
Staring at the floor and the black wing-tipped shoes, glowing under ages of wax, her eyes moved up the black worsted trousers shining at the knees, to the breviary held under the same arm as the straw hat, and up to the face.
A short encounter followed between Campbell and Horry, in which the former was worsted.
Aliens worsted the Markmen, who were but a few, since they were they of the Upper-mark only.
Otter had been compelled in a manner to fall on the Romans along with the riders of the Bearings and the Wormings, and the second who had but just then come, told how the Markmen had been worsted by the Romans, and had given back from the Wolfing dwellings, and were making a stand against the foemen in the meadow betwixt the ford and Wolfstead.
Had he been born a year before his brother, instead of a year after, Charles Pendyce would naturally have owned Worsted Skeynes, and Horace would have gone into the Army instead.
In Lady Maiden, whom he had taken in to dinner, Worsted Skeynes entertained a good woman and a personality, whose teas to Working Men in the London season were famous.
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes was not tall, and his head had been rendered somewhat bald by thought.
Worsted Skeynes must do with one gun, as my dear old father had to do before me.
Fuller or Lord Quarryman, whose estates abutted on Worsted Skeynes, and there was grave and imminent danger of its going back, it was promptly shot and stuffed, that it might not be lost to posterity.
The guests at Worsted Skeynes on the night of the Rutlandshire Handicap were nearly all county people, from the Hon.
The Rector of Worsted Skeynes saw, too, that her eyes were closed, her lips parted.
It was at Barnard Scrolls, the next station to Worsted Skeynes, on the following afternoon, that a young man entered a first-class compartment of the 3.
Worsted Skeynes, in one hand carrying his hat, in the other a small brown bag.
Tea at Worsted Skeynes was served in the hall on Sundays, and was usually attended by the Rector and his wife.