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ˈwool-ˌbearer
An animal that bears wool, esp. a sheep.
1483Cath. Angl. 423/1 A Wolle berere, laniger. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 631 The Epithets of this beast are, horne-bearer,..wool-bearer [etc.]. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiv. 134 A huge wooll-bearer, slaughtered there. 1651Barksdale Nympha Lib. ii. xlv. 45 The trembling Wool-bearer. 1837Youatt Sheep iii. 95 Many an animal that had not been dreamed of as a wool-bearer. 1891C. Roberts Adrift. Amer. 245 To maunder on behind the slow and harmless wool-bearers.
So ˈwool-ˌbearing a.
1830Booth Analyt. Dict. 186 The Sheep, or Woolbearing animal (Ovis aries). |