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单词 short wool
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short wooln.

1. Wool having a short staple or fibre.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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