| 单词 | fell wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfell wool fell wool n. [compare skin wool n. at skin n. Compounds 5] wool that has been pulled from a sheepskin, rather than shorn from a live animal; cf. fellmonger n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep > from dead sheep pelt wool1341 pell wool1404 morling1448 skin wool1495 fell wool1677 slipe1856 c1490 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 124 To weue any Brodemede or other cloth made of any other stuff than oonly of flees woll or fell woll. 1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edward VI c. 6 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 136 Myngelinge Fell Wooll and Lambes Wooll..with Fleese Wooll. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 278 This Fell wool they separate into five or six sorts. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Fell-wool, the wool pulled from sheep-skins in distinction from the [vleez-èol] shorn from the living animal. 2005 Shakespeare Q. 56 424 Glovers, drawn into the trade by profits from the sale of fell wool—wool plucked from the skins purchased for glove manufacture. < as lemmas |
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