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worsted

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1. worsted - Noun

2. worsted - Adjective

3. worsted - Verb

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of Worst

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.

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Argument almost always leaves behind a sore feeling in the heart of the one who has been worsted. By loving teaching, by Christ-like living, we are to win this people for our Lord. They do not understand what disinterested love and unselfishness mean: you are to go and live it amont them. James Hudson Taylor

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted. Tom Holt

Her pleasure will not let me stay. She talks and I am fain to list: She's glad the birds are gone away, She's glad her simple worsted gray Is silver now with clinging mist. Robert Frost

He was dressed in a suit of plain black; with grey worsted stockings. Source: Internet

If the fibers are first aligned by combing them, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun. Source: Internet

They were worsted by a Sulayhid expedition but queen Arwa agreed to reduce the tribute by half, to 50,000 dinars per year. Source: Internet

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