单词 | estridge wool |
释义 | estridge wooln. Now historical. rare. Wool imported from eastern European countries. ΚΠ 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 23 Of the Easterlinges they buye Flaxe, Hempe,..Sope-ashes, Estridg wooll & almost whatsoeuer is made, or groweth in the East Countries. 1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. v. xv. 239/2 The Estridge Wools, that is the Wools imported from the East Countries, a coarser sort, amounted not to two hundred Weight. 1798 I. Sequeira New Merchant's Guide 199 Estridge Wool, may be imported in a British-built ship duty-free. 1912 R. Lydekker Sheep & its Cousins iv. 74 The wool [of German heath-sheep] is of a coarse character, and best suited to the manufacture of blankets and the like... Formerly..large quantities of the wool of these sheep were imported into England, under the name of Estridge wool. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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