cottonizev.
/ˈkɒt(ə)nʌɪz/ transitive. To reduce (flax, hemp, etc.) to a short staple resembling cotton. Cf. flax-cotton n. at flax n. Compounds 2a.
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1851 McDermott in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 241 The causes which..led him to experiment upon flax, for the purpose of ‘cottonizing’ it.
1853 Wilson in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 199 The attempt..to cottonize flax has been discovered to be really no novelty.
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ˈcottonized adj.
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1851 McDermott in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 i. 246 The specific gravity of the cottonized substance will also be precisely similar to that of cotton itself.
ˈcottonizing n.
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1890 Times 19 Aug. 10 Cottonizing and woollenizing fibres to imitate fine cotton or wool.
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