单词 | short wool |
释义 | short wooln. 1. Wool having a short staple or fibre. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > short-stapled short wool1728 brokes1879 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Woollen Manufactory A Pack, or 240 Pounds Weight of short Wool. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/2 In 1828 the number of packs of short wool had diminished to 2800. 1912 Times 19 Dec. 20/3 The finer varieties of short wools. 2. (Hyphenated.) A sheep producing such a wool. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > body and parts of > fleece > sheep defined by short wool1837 bare-belly1878 1837 W. Youatt Sheep ix. 351 A few of the short-wools were left. 1844 W. C. Spooner Sheep 72 [The South Down breed] ranks with the Leicester—the former first among the short~wools. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1824 Banks in Bischoff Woollen Manuf. (1842) II. 55 Any drawback so obtained must operate as a bounty to the English short-wool grower. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 358/1 Various breeds of short-wool sheep still prevail on the hills of Devonshire and Cornwall. Derivatives short-woolled adj. ΚΠ 1787 Ann. Agric. 8 199 The South Downs..are, for that point, the best short-woolled sheep which I know in England. 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 359/2 One other breed of short-woolled sheep must be mentioned. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1728 |
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