| 单词 | skin wool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskin wool skin wool n. wool taken from the skin of a dead sheep. 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 1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 42 Centum stones de flesse wolle et skyn wolle. 1586 Edinb. Test. XV. f. 206 v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Skin Aucht stane of skyn woll price of the stane xl s. 1739 G. Bridges Let. Segdirboeg 12 The Farmer, Skinner, or Grower of Wool, may do what he pleased with his Sheep, Lamb, or Skin-Wool. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 340 The skin-wool is not usually found most plentiful where the stock of sheep is most heavy. 1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 71 With short wool, especially if it be skin wool, the rollers should be closed up. 1946 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 109 238 For the five years immediately preceding the war the average annual production of wool was 105 million lb., of which about 75 million lb. were fleece wool and 30 million lb. fell-mongered or skin wool. 2003 P. R. Lord Handbk. Yarn Production (new ed.) ii. 33 Pulled wool may alternatively be described as ‘skin wool’ or ‘slipes’. < as lemmas |
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