kembster
A woman who cleans or combs out wool
archaic, historical
A married woman who supplemented her family's income by brewing ale or combing wool for yarn would not have been identified in the records as a brewster or kembster.
Where it comes from
From Middle English kembestere, kempstare, kemster, equivalent to kemb + -ster.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry kembster (CC BY-SA 4.0).