单词 | extract wool |
释义 | > as lemmasextract wool c. transferred. (See quot. 1879). Also in fuller form extract wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > reconstituted textiles > [noun] devil's dust1843 extract wool1879 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 261/1 The latter [cotton in worn-out fabrics] is destroyed by a chemical process, leaving the wool intact, which is then called ‘extract’. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 661/1 Extract wool is that which is recovered from rags of various cloths in which cotton and wool are variously woven together. 1963 A. J. Hall Student's Handbk. Textile Sci. ii. 38 The recovered wool passes under various names such as mungo, shoddy, alpaca and extract (this latter contains cotton fibres also since it is obtained from waste mixture goods). < as lemmas |
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