| 单词 | long wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong wool long wool n. (a) long-stapled wool, suitable for combing or carding; (b) (chiefly in form longwool) a breed of sheep with long wool; a sheep of this breed. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > long-stapled long wool1613 combing-wool1757 1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing v. 24 Then the mingling of fine floxe with long wools yet course, which beeing carded together doth holde spinning and working but most deceitfull in vse and wearing. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. vi. 24 They are long Wool Sheep [Fr. moutons a la grande laine]. 1784 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (1790) II. 23 The sheep, longwools of Leicestershire. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 388 Wool Manufacture. This well-known staple is..divided into two distinct classes, long wool, or worsted spinning; and short wool, or the spinning of woollen yarn. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 458 The Longwools attain to greater size and shear a larger fleece. 1922 Textiles Nov. 39/4 A long wool had to be used for making this thread. That long wool has first to be cleared of any short fibers that are in it. 2005 C. Wooster Living with Sheep (2007) viii. 158 Hand-spinners..love to work with long wool. 2006 Field July 123/1 The splendid, sofa-sized Leicester and Lincoln longwools are still around but are quite rare. < as lemmas |
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