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Woolley

noun

English archaeologist who supervised the excavations at Ur (1880-1960). Synonyms: Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Sir Leonard Woolley.

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... first buffalo hunt when he had broken away from the other hunters in his early boyhood days and the buffalo bull had got him down in a crack of the earth under its feet. And there was the story of his first Synod Meeting, "when A came all wild an' woolley out o' the West! My five brithers were there; they were a' preachers! One is the bishop! Oh, A guess they were on needles an' pins for fear o' what A'd do! A'd been in the West so long, A didn't know enough not to go shirtsleeves down the streets o' Montreal! Well, been ...

— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut

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Words linked to "Woolley" : archeologist, Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, archaeologist