| 单词 | pell wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspell wool pell wool n. now historical wool from the skin of a dead sheep; = pelt wool n. at pelt n.1 Compounds 2. 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 1404Pelwolle [see sense 1a]. 1442 Rolls of Parl. V. 61/1 Please it your noble grace, to ordeyne..that ther be put in noon of thoo Worstedes, eny Lambe woll, nor Pell woll. 1933 E. E. Power in E. E. Power & M. M. Postan Stud. Eng. Trade 15th Cent. ii. 51 Outside the good and middle wool came a miscellaneous assortment of inferior wools and skins, morlings or moreins.., pell-wool (plucked from the skins of dead sheep), flesh-wool (possibly the same), and locks. 1995 D. Griffiths That Inward Eye xxiv. 144 If a sheep died the wool was pulled off it and this they [sc. the gypsies] would also buy: it was called pell wool. < as lemmas |
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