wooln.
/wʊl/, U.S. /wʊl/ 1. † d. As the material of the thread spun and cut off by the Fates. Obsolete.
a. The fine soft curly hair forming the fleecy coat of the domesticated sheep (and similar animals), characterized by its property of felting (due to the imbricated surface of the filaments) and used chiefly in a prepared state for making cloth; frequently, the material in a prepared state as a commodity. Spanish or oriental wool, wool treated with a dye, used as a cosmetic.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun]
woolc725
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 > wool
woolc725
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > from Spain
Spanish paper1650
Spanish paint1668
Spanish or oriental wool1678
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) L 84 Lana, uul.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 356 Blacu rammes wul on wætere gedyfed.
c1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 190/25 Unawæscen wull.
c1290 Kath. 246 in S. Eng. Leg. 99 Also man draweth with combes wolle.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10033 Greye monekes þat newe come & pouere þo were, Ȝeue al hor wolle þerto of one ȝere.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 168 Þe mene folk..doand him seruise, Þat bies woule & wyne.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 18 Hit beo cardet with Couetise, as cloþers doþ heor wolle.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Lucrece. 1721 Softe wolle..she wroughte To kepe hire from slouthe & Idilnesse.
1436 Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 161 Oure Englysshe commodytees, Wolle and tynne.
1480 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 33 Howr father wyll schype the remanand of good whooll of thys sorte.
1506 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 249 Item, for woll to the schulderis of it [sc. a gown], xvjd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iii. 4 Mesa ye kynge of the Moabites..payed tribute vnto the kynge of Israel with the woll of an hundreth thousande lambes.
1637 J. Milton Comus 26 To teize the huswifes wooll.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Spanish-Wool, a parcel of Wool so coloured by Spanish Art, and therefore so called, that it imparts its tincture to Ladies [etc.].
1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. 451 Wool wrought together and compacted as closely, as Wool is by the Workman's Hands, in the making a Hat.
1755 Connoisseur No. 65. ⁋2 I am ashamed to tell you that we are indebted to Spanish Wool for many of our masculine ruddy complexions.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 49 In the same fleece diversity of wool Grows intermingled.
1826 J. Rennie New Suppl. Pharmacopœias 292 Oriental Wool. This coloured wool comes from China in large round loose cakes... The finest of these gives a most lovely and agreeable blush to the cheek.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 63 I hear Dead sounds at night..Like footsteps upon wool.
1871 W. Reid Sheep 82 An increased supply of mutton and wool.
b. The fleece or complete woolly covering of a sheep, etc.; out of the wool, shorn.
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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
fleecea1000
woolc1540
wether1879
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [adjective] > of parts of > having a fleece > shorn
shorn?1518
out of the woolc1540
shorned1600
two-shear1788
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 161 This whethur and þe wole were wonderly keppit By..Mars.
1550 in T. Phillipps Index Worcester Wills (c1830) 180 Threescore Sheep, to be delivered unto him out of their wool.
1572 R. Sempill Lament. Commounis Scotl. (single sheet) To bring the woll, the skin, and hyde To Edinburgh Towne.
1841 Lady S. Lyttelton in Corr. (1912) 310 Lord S... left town..‘to see the sheep just out of the wool after shearing.’
c. The short soft under-hair or down forming part of the coat of certain hairy or furry animals.
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the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > coat > under-hair
wool1607
undercoat1840
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 274 The powder of the wooll of a Hare burned..fasteneth the haire from falling off.
1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. 103 After your dogge hath courst,..first cleanse his mouth and chaps from the wool of the Hare.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 15 Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge, Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge. View more context for this quotation
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods ii. iv. 25 in Wks. (1640) III Ha' you felt the wooll of Bever?
1757 Refl. Importation of Bar-Iron 13 The American bought the Beaver Wool (the raw Material [of a hat]) at a much cheaper Rate.
1837 W. Youatt Sheep iii. 57 The camel has, at the base of its long hair, a quantity of wool.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 288.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > other
cot1471
wool1608
Lemster ore1610
belta1641
vigone1656
downright1749
stitchel1775
super1797
Saxony1842
lustre1894
snow-white1896
sixties-
1608 B. Jonson Descr. Masque Visct. Haddington 225 in Characters Two Royall Masques That was reseru'd, vntill the Parcæ spunne Their whitest woll; & then, his thred begun.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. E7v Let bounteous Fate your spindles full Fill, and winde up with whitest wooll.
e. With qualifying word. See also fell wool n. at fell n.1 Compounds, goat's-wool (goat n. and adj. Compounds 3b), lambswool n., skin-wool (skin n. Compounds 5), etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep
wool1495
sheep's wool1721
sheep-wool1851
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > fleece > [noun] > types of
shearling1481
wool1495
hog wool1653
hog1824
fallen fleece1867
shirling1869
yearlings1888
1495 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 42 Centum stones de flesse wolle et skyn wolle.
1498 Ledger-bk. A. Halyburton (1867) 219 A pok of lam vol.
c1541 Tenours Indentures 19 Cotiswold wolle of the growynge of this present yere.
1698–9 Act 11 Will. III c. 20 §1 Manufactures..made of Sheeps Wooll or Coney Wooll.
f. In comparisons, e.g. as soft, white as wool.
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c825 Vesp. Psalter cxlvii. 16 Se seleð snawe swe swe wulle.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 265 Hire her was hor and swiþe ȝwijȝt as þei it were wolle.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. i. 14 The heed of him and heeres weren white, as whijt wulle.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 63 Softer than the wolle is of a wether.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 359 in Poems (1981) 18 Als warme as woll.
1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay sig. I.ivv Giff ȝour sinnis be..reid as purpur neuthertheles yai sal be quhit as wow.
1755 R. Forbes Shop-bill in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 38 Some are cotton, That's safter far na' ony woo, that grows on mutton.
1841 H. W. Longfellow Wreck of Hesperus in Boston Bk. (ed. 3) 76 She struck where the white and fleecy waves Look'd soft as carded wool.
g. Phrases and proverbial sayings. (a) against the wool: contrary to the direction in which wool naturally lies, the wrong way. (b) to draw (pull, †spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes: to make blind to facts, to hoodwink, to deceive. Originally U.S. (c) to dye in the wool: to dye the wool before spinning; figurative in passive to be thoroughly imbued; dyed in the wool (chiefly U.S.), thoroughgoing, out-and-out (cf. wool-dyed adj. at Compounds 4). †(d) to gather wool: see wool-gathering n. 2 (e) great (also much) cry and little wool and variants: see cry n. Phrases 1. (f) all wool and a yard wide and variants, of excellent quality; thoroughly sound or honourable. (g) wool away! (Australian andNew Zealand) (see quot. 1965). (h) to lose one's wool (slang), to lose one's temper; similarly to keep one's wool, etc. (cf. hair n. Phrases 18 and sense 2c below). (i) wool on the back: money, assets. (j) Miscellaneous.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > in the face of or in opposition [phrase] > opposed to natural bent
against the wool1393
against the hair1532
against the wooda1568
against (also, contrary to) the graina1616
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > indulge in daydreams [verb (intransitive)]
dream?c1400
saunterc1475
dump1530
to go (run, be) wool-gathering1553
to gather wool1577
reverie1832
reverize1836
Alnascharize1840
daydream1899
mice1984
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > inveterate or confirmed
composed1483
wedded1578
fastened1596
dyed in the wool1597
sworna1616
hardeneda1618
engrained1630
steadfast1644
radicateda1661
inveterate1735
professional1814
confirmed1827
card-carrying1939
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter
to the hard ——c1400
as or so very a1560
a fool (also man, etc.) in print1600
of the first (also finest, best, etc.) water1824
dyed in the wool1830
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase]
to blear the eyesc1325
to play mock-holiday with?1558
on a lock1598
to put the change upon (also on) (a person)1658
to play false1680
to draw (pull, spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes1839
to lead (a person) up the garden (path)1923
to pull a fastie1931
to take (someone) for a sleigh ride1931
to pull a swiftie1945
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
faireOE
bremea1000
goodlyOE
goodfulc1275
noblec1300
pricec1300
specialc1325
gentlec1330
fine?c1335
singulara1340
thrivena1350
thriven and throa1350
gaya1375
properc1380
before-passinga1382
daintiful1393
principala1398
gradelya1400
burlyc1400
daintyc1400
thrivingc1400
voundec1400
virtuousc1425
hathelc1440
curiousc1475
singlerc1500
beautiful1502
rare?a1534
gallant1539
eximious1547
jolly1548
egregious?c1550
jellyc1560
goodlike1562
brawc1565
of worth1576
brave?1577
surprising1580
finger-licking1584
admirablea1586
excellinga1586
ambrosial1598
sublimated1603
excellent1604
valiant1604
fabulous1609
pure1609
starryc1610
topgallant1613
lovely1614
soaringa1616
twanging1616
preclarent1623
primea1637
prestantious1638
splendid1644
sterling1647
licking1648
spankinga1666
rattling1690
tearing1693
famous1695
capital1713
yrare1737
pure and —1742
daisy1757
immense1762
elegant1764
super-extra1774
trimming1778
grand1781
gallows1789
budgeree1793
crack1793
dandy1794
first rate1799
smick-smack1802
severe1805
neat1806
swell1810
stamming1814
divine1818
great1818
slap-up1823
slapping1825
high-grade1826
supernacular1828
heavenly1831
jam-up1832
slick1833
rip-roaring1834
boss1836
lummy1838
flash1840
slap1840
tall1840
high-graded1841
awful1843
way up1843
exalting1844
hot1845
ripsnorting1846
clipping1848
stupendous1848
stunning1849
raving1850
shrewd1851
jammy1853
slashing1854
rip-staving1856
ripping1858
screaming1859
up to dick1863
nifty1865
premier cru1866
slap-bang1866
clinking1868
marvellous1868
rorty1868
terrific1871
spiffing1872
all wool and a yard wide1882
gorgeous1883
nailing1883
stellar1883
gaudy1884
fizzing1885
réussi1885
ding-dong1887
jim-dandy1888
extra-special1889
yum-yum1890
out of sight1891
outasight1893
smooth1893
corking1895
large1895
super1895
hot dog1896
to die for1898
yummy1899
deevy1900
peachy1900
hi1901
v.g.1901
v.h.c.1901
divvy1903
doozy1903
game ball1905
goodo1905
bosker1906
crackerjack1910
smashinga1911
jake1914
keen1914
posh1914
bobby-dazzling1915
juicy1916
pie on1916
jakeloo1919
snodger1919
whizz-bang1920
wicked1920
four-star1921
wow1921
Rolls-Royce1922
whizz-bang1922
wizard1922
barry1923
nummy1923
ripe1923
shrieking1926
crazy1927
righteous1930
marvy1932
cool1933
plenty1933
brahmaa1935
smoking1934
solid1935
mellow1936
groovy1937
tough1937
bottler1938
fantastic1938
readyc1938
ridge1938
super-duper1938
extraordinaire1940
rumpty1940
sharp1940
dodger1941
grouse1941
perfecto1941
pipperoo1945
real gone1946
bosting1947
supersonic1947
whizzo1948
neato1951
peachy-keen1951
ridgey-dite1953
ridgy-didge1953
top1953
whizzing1953
badass1955
wild1955
belting1956
magic1956
bitching1957
swinging1958
ridiculous1959
a treat1959
fab1961
bad-assed1962
uptight1962
diggish1963
cracker1964
marv1964
radical1964
bakgat1965
unreal1965
pearly1966
together1968
safe1970
bad1971
brilliant1971
fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
bodacious1976
rad1976
kif1978
awesome1979
death1979
killer1979
fly1980
shiok1980
stonking1980
brill1981
dope1981
to die1982
mint1982
epic1983
kicking1983
fabbo1984
mega1985
ill1986
posho1989
pukka1991
lovely jubbly1992
awesomesauce2001
nang2002
bess2006
amazeballs2009
boasty2009
daebak2009
beaut2013
the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > maintain self-control [verb (intransitive)]
to keep one's countenance1470
to get above ——1603
to keep one's head1717
keep your shirt on1844
to keep one's hair on1883
to keep one's wool1890
not to bat an eye, eyelid1904
to keep one's pants on1928
to play it cool1955
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [interjection] > cry of shearer
wool away!c1897
the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry
wrethec900
wrothc975
abelghec1300
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
to peck moodc1330
gremec1460
to take firea1513
fumec1522
sourdc1540
spitec1560
to set up the heckle1601
fire1604
exasperate1659
to fire up1779
to flash up1822
to get one's dander up1831
to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832
to have (also get) one's monkey up1833
to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837
rile1837
to go off the handle1839
to flare up1840
to set one's back up1845
to run hot1855
to wax up1859
to get one's rag out1862
blow1871
to get (also have) the pricker1871
to turn up rough1872
to get the needle1874
to blaze up1878
to get wet1898
spunk1898
to see red1901
to go crook1911
to get ignorant1913
to hit the ceiling1914
to hit the roof1921
to blow one's top1928
to lose one's rag1928
to lose one's haira1930
to go up in smoke1933
hackle1935
to have, get a cob on1937
to pop (also blow) one's cork1938
to go hostile1941
to go sparec1942
to do one's bun1944
to lose one's wool1944
to blow one's stack1947
to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950
rear1953
to get on ignorant1956
to go through the roof1958
to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964
to lose ita1969
to blow a gasket1975
to throw a wobbler1985
(a)
(b)1839 Jamestown (N.Y.) Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/6 That lawyer has been trying to spread the wool over your eyes.1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 29 Sept. Look sharp, or they'll pull wool over your eyes.1855 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1883) xv. 55 He ain't so big a fool as to have the wool drawd over his eyes in that way.a1859 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 517 They think they find a prize, If they can only pull their wool o'er other people's eyes.1884 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham vii I don't propose he shall pull the wool over my eyes.(c)1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 85 If he had not through institution, and education (as it were) dyed in wolle the manners of children.1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 214 Children as it were in the Wooll of their infancie died with hardnesse may neuer afterwards change colour.1679 London Gaz. No. 1449/4 A peice of half Ell green double Camblet dyed in the Wool.1830 D. Webster Speech in Mass. Spy 10 Feb. In half an hour [he can] come out an original democrat, dyed in the wool.1840 J. P. Kennedy Quodlibet ii. 52 As patent a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat as Theodore Fog himself.1871 College Courant 21 Jan. in Schele de Vere Amer. A drenching rain has washed the indigo from his new suit dyed in the wool at home, into his skin.1885 J. J. Hummel Dyeing Textile Fabrics 289 If in any dyed woollen fabric the colour has been imparted to it while it was yet in the state of unspun wool, it is said to be wool-dyed, or to have been dyed in the wool.1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 503/2 Socialists dyed in the wool.1903 Smart Set 9 23/2 The governor of Alleghenia is a dyed-in-the-wool scoundrel.(d)1577 T. Kendall tr. Politianus et al. Flowers of Epigrammes f. 15 The Papist praies with mouth, his minde on gathering woolle doeth goe.1606 N. Breton Poste with Packet Madde Lett. (new ed.) II. sig. Fv For their wittes, if they lose not their owne fleeces, let them gather wool where they can.(e)c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) x. 132 His hyghnes shall haue þeroff, but as hadd þe man þat sherid is hogge, muche crye and litil woll.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 10 Here is..as one said at the shearing of hogs, great cry & litle wool.1644 W. Prynne Falsities & Forgeries 2 Here is a great cry indeed, but little wool.1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 165 Humph, quoth the Dee'l when he clip'd the Sow, A great cry, and little Woo.a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 170 For Matter of Title he thought there was more Squeak than Wool.1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 372 At first, there was much cry but little wool.1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scotl. 142 ‘Mair whistle than woo’, quo' the souter when he sheared the sow.a1893 Mod. Sc. Muckle cry an' little woo', As the deil said whan he shore the soo.1952 V. W. Brooks Confident Years xviii. 197 Her diary was much more cry than wool and Mary MacLane was a startling figure only because the times were so colourless and mild.(f)1882 G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 85 You want to pick out (as the ‘boss combination girl’ of Rock Co.) a thoroughbred, that is, all wool, a yard wide.1909 F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva xxvi. 204 You sho' is genoowine corn-fed, sterlin' silver, all-wool-an'-a-yard-wide, pure-leaf, Green-River Lollapaloosas.1913 J. London Valley of Moon 60 You're a live one, all wool, a yard long and a yard wide.1963 L. Meynell Virgin Luck v. 114 It didn't seem to matter so much with people as decent as that about. She was all wool and a yard wide, that one.1974 ‘A. Gilbert’ Nice Little Killing iii. 40 No one will ever catch her..with an alibi all wool and a yard wide.(g)c1897 D. McK. Wright in A. E. Woodhouse N.Z. Farm & Station Verse (1950) 33 Wool away! Wool away is the cry And the merry game of busting is begun.1949 P. Newton High Country Days v. 53 The call of ‘wool away’ had lagging fleecies dashing to rescue fleeces before the shearer would be out with his next sheep.1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 38 Wool away, the call of a shearer who wants the picker-up to carry away a fleece. This has to be done after each sheep, and fleeces are not left lying around on the floor while another sheep is being shorn.(h)1830 R. Lower Tom Cladpole's Jurney cxxxvi Dat rais'd ma wool.1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (at cited word) ‘Keep your wool on,’ don't get angry.1926 ‘A. Berkeley’ Wychford Poisoning Case v. 48 ‘All right,’ Alec said soothingly. ‘Keep your wool on.’1944 D. Welch In Youth is Pleasure v. 87 Dennis said a lot more, growing increasingly vicious with each new sentence... ‘My dear, don't lose your wool,’ she said, mimicking old-fashioned schoolboy slang.1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 178 They taunt the person [who is easily provoked]:..‘Don't lose your bait’ (‘rag’, ‘rise’, ‘wool’).1967 O. Norton Now lying Dead vi. 108 I lost my wool then.(i)1909 London Mag. Aug. 630/1 It is seldom that the clerk has a sufficiency of that commodity known as ‘wool on the back’ to go round amongst all the creditors.(j)1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 264 Thyne sheep ar ner al shabbyd, þe wolf shiteþ woolle.1583 H. Howard Defensatiue sig. Ajv Wooll driueth backe the Cannon shotte.1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. lxvii. 455 I would not haue her come for wooll, and returne shorne.1680 C. Blount tr. Philostratus Life Apollonius Tyaneus 243 It is ill Wooll that will take no Dye.1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. iii. 242 Sancho Panza..says,..many go for wool, and come home shorn.1864 R. Browning Mr. Sludge 630 If such as came for wool, sir, went home shorn; Where is the wrong I did them?1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John iv, in Wks. (1573) 415/1 He wresteth all the Scriptures & setteth them clean agaynst the woll, to destroy this article.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div What shuld your face thus agayn the woll be shorne For one fall?
1599 N. Breton Wil of Wit (1876) 60/2 But begging is a vile life in the meane time. Patience. Then worke. Anger. That goes against the wooll.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxvi. 298 Let us..brush our former Words against the Wool.
2. Applied to substances resembling sheep's wool.
a. A downy substance or fibre found on certain trees and plants; also, the thick furry hair of some insects or larvæ. Cf. cotton wool n. 1.
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the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [noun] > downy covering
downa1382
woolc1400
cotton1551
frieze1640
dowl1661
tomentum1693
pubescence1760
pubes1772
shag1774
indumentum1847
shaggy hairs1884
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > villosity or ciliation > [noun] > wool or down
woolc1400
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > coat > hair, wool, or fur > thick furry hair
wool1840
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxvi. 268 In that Lond ben Trees, that beren Wolle, as thogh it were of Scheep; where of men maken Clothes, and alle thing that may ben made of Wolle.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 59v His Apple or fruite is all ouer apparailed with a certaine kinde of wooll called Cotton.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxxi. 118 The other white Mulleyne..hath white leaues frysed with a soft wooll or Cotton.
1684 J. P. von Valcaren Relation Siege Vienna 108 Sacks of Wool made of Trees.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Xylon Seeds..wrapped within that soft ductile Wool, commonly known by the Name of Cotton.
1827–8 R. Sweet Flora Australasica No. 15 Leaves..thickly clothed with white wool.
1831 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants I. 513 The wool contained in the fruit is called Samauma in Brazil, with which the natives stuff pillows and bolsters.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 611 The Noctuælitese... The body is generally clothed with scales rather than with wool.
1885 Ld. Tennyson Spinster's Sweet-arts xii The wool of a thistle a-flyin'.
1895 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 354 Horse-chestnut leaves, when they make their way through the..bud-scales, are thickly covered with wool.
b. Any fine fibrous substance naturally or artificially produced. †Also (poetic) applied to ice. philosophic(al) wool, philosophers' wool, (Latin lana philosophica), oxide of zinc, deposited as a fine flocculent powder, during the combustion of the metal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > other specific kinds of texture > [noun] > fibrous texture > substance > fine
wool1599
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > oxide of zinc
philosophic cotton1753
philosophic wool1758
philosophical wool1771
philosophers' woolc1865
philosophic(al) woolc1865
furnace cadmia1881
the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > formed by calcination > specific
philosophers' woolc1865
philosophic(al) woolc1865
1595 T. Johnson Cornucopiæ sig. C3v A stone named Abeston.., which hath..a kinde of Wooll growing about it.]
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 74 The smel..of silken wool that's new.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 22 As the rigor of long Cold congeals To harsh hard Wooll the running Water-Rils.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 94 Into this form may the whole substance of the Zinc be converted. Several names have been given to these flowers, such as Pompholix, Philosophic Wool.
1850 C. J. Hempel New Homœopathic Pharmacopœia 275 Flowers of Zinc, Philosophical Wool.
1852 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 2) Suppl. 1392/1 Philosophic Wool.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 191/2 A flocky-white powder, which has been called ‘philosophers' wool’.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool..a slag of iron blown by steam into a fibrous form. Known as slag-wool, or silicate cotton.
1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 439/2 Slag-wool... The wool..is principally used for covering boilers or steam~pipes.
1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Glass-wool, glass spun out to a very fine fibre. Used in the filtration of acids.
c. offensive. The short, tightly-curled hair of people of black African descent. Also: gen. (jocularly) the hair of the head.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [noun]
lockeOE
faxc900
hairc1000
hairc1000
headOE
topc1275
toppingc1400
peruke1548
fleece1577
crine1581
head of hair1587
poll1603
a fell of haira1616
thatcha1634
maidenhair1648
chevelure1652
wool1697
toupet1834
nob-thatch1846
barnet1857
toss1946
the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [noun] > frizzy
frizzle1613
moss hair1689
wool1697
frizziness1906
Brillo1968
frizzies1980
1697 London Gaz. No. 3256/4 Run away.., a Negro Boy..the Wooll off the right side of his Head about the breadth of a Crown Piece.
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 6 Meeting with an uncommon Negro, the Hair or (rather) Wooll on his Head, Beard, and Breast being as white as Snow.
1767 Carteret in Hawkesw. Voy. (1773) I. 599 The people are..woolly-headed, like Negroes..the hair, or rather the wool upon their heads, was very abundantly powdered.
a1853 in ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green ix. 83 He'd got no wool on the top of his head,—just the place where the wool ought to grow, you know.
1884 S. St. John Hayti iv. 146 The principal trouble to the female negro mind is her unfortunate wool.
d. Vague or slip-shod reasoning or thinking.
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1920 Round Table Sept. 933 Intellectually impatient of ‘wool’, his kindness of heart made him tolerant of much that must have appeared to him to be vainness.
3.
a. Woollen clothing or material; a woollen garment. Scottish phrase amang the woo', in the blankets.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool
woola1400
woollens1800
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun]
woollena1300
woola1400
mantling1561
lanifice1626
stuffa1648
woollen-work1866
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > made from specific material > wool > article of
woolly1899
wool1933
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11112 He..Ne wered noþer wol ne line.
a1535 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1272/2 How proude is many a man ouer his neighbour, because the wull of hys gowne is fyner?
a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman i. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dd3v/2 A countrey foole, good to..eate course bread, weare the worst wooll.
1818 J. Kennedy Poet. Wks. 44 (E.D.D.) They..den amang the woo, Fu' quiet that night.
1882 E. A. Barnett Common-sense Clothing 28 Wear wool in hot weather; do as you please in cold.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. iv. xxv. 354 ‘I am a little cold after all,’ said Father Xavier, looking at the fire regretfully. ‘A second till I change into my wool.’
1952 M. Laski Village v. 94 The beige silk frock could at last be discarded for a really not-too-bad navy blue wool.
1975 B. N. Byfield & F. L. Tedeschi Solemn High Murder (1976) i. 10 Mueller had taken away his rumpled suit, leaving his heavier wools hanging in the open closet.
1978 S. Brill Teamsters ix. 340 The custom-tailored wools that might..have made him look like a well-heeled Wall Street lawyer.
b. The nap of a woollen fabric.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > nap of
wool1563
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 14 Garmentes, whose woll is hyghe, as fryese mantels, and suche lyke.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. i. i. 34 Such patrons doo scrape the wooll from our [the parsons'] clokes.
1836 H. Manwaring Tailors' New Guide 16 First open the cloth with the wool to go with the back seam.
1892 N. Gale Country Muse 32 How his Pilot Jacket shows Ghosts of snowballs on the wool!
c. Twisted woollen yarn used for knitting and mending garments.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen > for sewing or knitting
wool1840
1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant I. 22 The Cap requires eight penny skeins of coloured Berlin wool, and six of white.
1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant I. 27 Work..with white,..never breaking off the wools till the whole is finished.
1849 E. Copley Comprehensive Knitting-bk. 4 Embroidery Wool is about the size of the thinnest Lady Betty.
1849 E. Copley Comprehensive Knitting-bk. 4 Shetland Wool..is in use for shawls, handkerchiefs, and scarfs.
1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 332 Stocking..knitted with German fingering wool.
d. figurative. Of a person.
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1922 J. Galsworthy Loyalties ii. ii. 67 Mabel, you're pure wool, right through; everybody's sorry for you.
4. A quantity or supply, or a particular kind or class, of wool. Chiefly in plural.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of
wool1399
western1427
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iv. 11 Whane þe countis were caste with þe custum of wullus.
c1400 Contin. Brut ccxxv. (1908) 293 Þe King askeþ þe vif part of alle þe meble goodez of Engelond, and þe wolles.
14.. Chaucer's Pard. T. (Corp. MS.) 582 Comeþ vp, ȝe wyues, offreþ ȝoure wulles.
?c1470 in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 283 The marchauntes comme oure wollys for to bye.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxviijv They followe..but one kynde of marchaundyse as Woulles or Sylkes.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. K2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Wools are as yet at high rate, but I thinke shortly they will fall.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxiii. 299 If they could make profite of their woolls by sending them into Europe.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4288/3 The Wools to be seen at Leathersellers Hall.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 124 Wools have been distinguished in commerce into two classes; fleece wools and dead wools.
1859 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 5) 67 Cus. A' ae oo? Shop. Ay, a' ae oo [= Aye, all one wool].
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive.
wool-bale n.
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1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. v. 154 Long caravans of drays..laden with wool-bales, hides, &c.
wool basket n.
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c1878 J. Albery Dram. Wks. (1939) II. 300 Fawley places a note in Haidee's wool-basket.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 38 Wool basket. There are several of these containers into which various locks and bellies are thrown to be baled up separately.
wool bin n.
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1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 30 Dec. 13/7 Wool bins, open compartments like stalls in a stable, where wool is stacked by classes until it is pressed.
1974 D. Stuart Prince of my Country i. 3 The woolbins loom broad and tall, the press towers above them, there are bales in squat heaps.
wool-blanket n.
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1519 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) II. 174 Ane payr of dowbill woll blankatis.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 570 It is not that wool-blanket, smothering affair that we were wrapped in down by Buana.
wool-bob n. (see bob n.1 6).
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1891 M. M. Dowie Girl in Karpathians 101 The lads of the village had..coloured wool-bobs..in their black felt hats.
wool-coat n.
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1905 J. McCabe tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man II. xxiv. 654 The embryonic wool-coat usually, in the case of the human embryo, covers the whole body.
wool-crop n.
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1884 H. H. Jackson Ramona i You could reckon up the wool~crop to a pound while it was on the sheep's back.
wool-import n.
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1919 Glasgow Herald 27 June 7 A congestion of wool imports at the docks.
wool-lock n.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. v. 15 The hope of the vnpitous is as a wlle loke, or thistil-doun.
c1422 T. Hoccleve Learn to Die 219 Myn hope is as it were a wolle-loke Which the wynd vp reisith for his lightnesse.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 534/2 Wullok, villus.
wool-mattress n.
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1899 Daily News 11 Sept. 2/6 A mattress invoiced as a ‘wool mattress’.
wool-produce n.
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1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 3 The wool produce of Australia.
wool-production n.
wool-sheet n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool-sheet, a packing-wrapper for bales of wool.
wool shop n.
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1923 Harmsworth's ‘Best Way’ Series No. 95 15/1 Ask at any wool shop for ‘Beehive’ Recipe Card No. 50 (price 2d.).
1943 A. Christie Moving Finger xiii. 147 She was knitting—ever so vexed she'd run out of wool... So I ran her in, dropped her at the wool shop.
1983 C. Bowder Birth Rites i. 38 The colour's a bit unusual. It was a discontinued line in my local wool~shop.
wool-side n.
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1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 65 By which all fleshy particles are removed from the inner or flesh side and the loose dirt removed from the wool side [of the pelt].
wool-tax n.
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1829 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. II. iii. 220 The wool-tax fell heavily upon the inhabitants.
1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 2 Deputies from the manufacturing districts, anxious for the repeal of the wool tax.
wool-top n. (top n.1 1).
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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 588/31 Icarpa, a wolletoppe.
b. = relating to or concerned with the manufacture, storage, transport, or commercial handling of wool or woollen goods.† wool chamber n. Obsolete† wool-ship n. Obsolete † wool-tool n. Obsolete
wool-bill n.
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1787 A. Young Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Trav. France (1792) i. 74 Our woollen manufacturers..when suing for their wool-bill, of infamous memory, bringing one Thomas Wilkinson from Dunkirk quay..to swear that wool passes from Dunkirk without entry, duty, or any thing being required.
wool-boat n.
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1898 Dublin Rev. July 171 The journey was continued in a flat-bottomed wool-boat.
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1603 in J. Gage Hist. & Antiq. Hengrave, Suffolk (1822) 22 Ye graneries; ye woole chamber.
wool-dray n.
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1845 D. Mackenzie Emigrant's Guide 91 Of these bales,..one of our ordinary wool-drays, drawn by eight bullocks, will carry to Sydney from 15 to 20.
wool duty n.
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1673–4 Earl of Essex Papers (Camden) I. 172 I cannot learn that any more then 1500ld, or at most 2000ld a year, was ever made for wooll dutys to ye chief Governr.
wool-fair n.
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1806 Monthly Mag. June 481/1 At a recent meeting of..wool growers of Glamorganshire, resolutions were adopted for establishing a wool-fair in that county.
wool-hall n.
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1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Buckingham This T. was many years a wool-staple, and many of its wool-halls are yet standing.
wool-loft n.
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1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 245 xix newe cabulles owte of the Wollofte at Southampton.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §887 The wool-loft bears evidence that sheep form a part of the live stock.
wool-market n.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 192 It will take a long time to cause such a demand for woollen goods as appreciably to affect the wool-markets.
wool quay n.
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1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 351/1 Charges sur les Laynes..al Wolkey en la Port de Londres.
1476 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) II. 5 The ij pokets woll, beynge at the Wollkey.
1721 Act 8 Geo. I c. 31 All that Piece or Parcel of Ground..called or known by the Name of Wooll Key, situate..in the Parish of All Saints Barking in the City of London.
wool-room n.
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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §779 The granary and the wool-room are both seven feet high.
wool-sale n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool~sale, a periodical public sale, in London or Liverpool, for the disposal of large quantities of wool.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xii The reputation of the Garrandilla clip in the forthcoming wool sales.
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1481 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 80 I undyrstond be yowr letter that aull the whowlschypys ar cwm to Calles.
wool-store n.
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1578 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 282 Studills, wheles, card and all wooll toiles.
wool trade n.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Wooltrade, the trade of buying and selling wool.
wool-wain n.
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1906 R. Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill viii. 242 They go over to Rye o' Thursday in the wool-wains.
wool warehouse n.
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1808 W. Wilson Hist. Dissenting Churches I. 397 The meeting-house in Gravel-lane, was afterwards occupied as a wool-warehouse.
wool weight n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool weight. The following are the subdivisions used in weighing wool.
wool-wharf n.
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1326 Will of William de Bodele Court Husting, London (City of London Rec. Office: CLA/023/DW/01/54(110)) Le Wollewharf in parochia sancti Dunstani.
1423 Will of William Lynne Court Husting, London (City of London Rec. Office: CLA/023/DW/01/152(20) Illam kayam meam vocatam Wollewharf..in parochia Omnium Sanctorum de Berkyngchirch London'.
C2. Objective, etc. esp. in terms denoting operatives or machines concerned with the manufacture of wool or woollen goods.
a. † wool-brogger n. Obsolete† wool-chapman n. Obsolete† wool-webster n. Obsolete
wool-breaker n. (see break v. 2c).
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a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) ii. ix. 110 Mr. Ludlowe..and his predecessours have been wooll-breakers..80 or 90 yeares.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 427 Wool-breakers..separate the fleeces by themselves that run most of a sort.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 219 Gill-machines of the ordinary construction as represented in the wool-breaker.
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1714 J. Blanch Beaux Merchant iii. 42 The Wooll-brogger buys his Wooll in the Summer, and sells out the greatest part in the Winter.
wool-broker n.
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1852 T. Baines Hist. Liverpool 756 (note) Mr. Thomas Southey, wool-broker, London.
wool-burler n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool-burlers, women who remove the little knots or extraneous matters from wool, and from the surface of woollen cloth.
wool-buyer n.
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a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A4 A woole seller kens a woole buyer.
1775 W. Donaldson Agric. 110 The rich grazier, who can..compel the wool~buyers to his own terms.
1876 J. S. Blackie Lett. (1909) 245 We took dinner..with the big sheep lairds, the wool-buyers and wool-brokers.
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1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 157 The feete and the skin they sell vnto the wool~chapmen.
wool-classer n.
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1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 96 There is the wool classer with his assistant rollers.
1911 W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush viii. 122 The wool-classer takes his stand before the sorting table.
1968 Guardian 29 Feb. 14/3 Ian Redpath (Victoria), 26. Wool classer. Opening bat.
wool-cleaner n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-cleaner, a machine for cleaning dust, burs, and other foreign matters from wool.
wool-cutter n.
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1723 London Gaz. No. 6192/9 Mary Louff.., Coney Wooll-Cutter.
wool-dealer n.
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1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVIII. at Wool The English wool-dealers.
wool-dresser n.
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1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 300 Struthium..is a Root us'd by the Wool-dressers.
wool-dryer n.
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1867 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Wool~drier, a workman who dries wool after washing.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-dryer, a machine for removing the moisture from wool after washing, dyeing, or what not.
wool-duster n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-duster, a machine for mechanically removing the coarser impurities from wool.
wool-dyer n.
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1858 E. Baines in T. Baines Yorks. Past & Present (1875) I. 648 (table) Wool dyers.
wool-factor n.
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1801 T. Peck Norwich Direct. 10 Coulsen Ralph, Wool-Factor.
wool-farmer n.
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a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. ii. iii. xvii. 258 Pedro Perez the wool-farmer.
wool-gleaner n.
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1889 H. Johnston Chron. Glenbuckie xxii. 255 Her profession was that of a wool~gleaner.
wool-grower n.
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1806Wool growers [see wool-fair n. at Compounds 1b].
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Oct. 6/3 Mr. Vernon, a wool-grower of Albert Head.
1962 Economist 31 Mar. 1275/1 Australian woolgrowers stand to earn £24 million more this season.
1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 1/5 Half of Australia's 93,000 woolgrowers will get less than $600 each from the Federal Government's new wool subsidy.
wool-holder n.
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1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 57 Another meeting of foreign wool holders.
wool-jobber n.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Wool-jobber, one who buys up small parcels of wool and sells them again.
wool-maker n.
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1483 Cath. Angl. 423/1 A Wolle maker, lanifex.
wool-merchant n.
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1836 Pigot & Co's London Commerc. Direct. ii. 315 Wool merchants and warehouses.
wool-monger n.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11173 [They] þe porters bede To late in tueie wolmongers, hor chaffare in to lede.
a1400 Old Usages Winchester in L. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 353 No wollemongere..ne may habbe no stal in þe heye-stret.
1697 View Penal Laws 257 Wool and Woolmongers.
wool-moter n.
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1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 551/2 Impurities..are afterwards picked out by boys or women, called ‘wool-moaters’, or ‘wool-pickers’.
wool-oiler n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-oiler..a device for attachment to the first breaker over the feed-apron, and immediately in front of the feed-rolls of the carding-machine.
wool-picker n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > combing > one who
kember1511
breaker1514
picker1536
wool-picker1536
wool carder1580
comber1658
scribbler1682
wool-comber1702
1536 Act 28 Hen. VIII c. 4 §1 Weauers, tuckers, spinners, diers, and wulpikers..haue ben..without worke.
1843 [see wool-moter n.]. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-picker, a machine for burring wool.
wool-printer n.
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1867 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Wool-printer.
wool-puller n.
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1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 1 The first operation to which sheepskins are subjected by the tanner or wool-puller is soaking.
wool-roller n.
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1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/7 The fleece he carries to the ‘skirting table,’ where the ‘wool roller’ stands.
wool-scourer n.
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1858 E. Baines in T. Baines Yorks. Past & Present (1875) I. 652 (table) Wool Scourers, Driers, &c.
wool-scribbler n. (see scribbler n.2).
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a1843 in R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 491/1 Mr. Taylor, wool-scribbler,..City Road.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool-scribblers, machines for combing..wool into thin downy translucent layers.
wool-scutcher n.
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1884 Spectator 26 Apr. 548 An ideal wool-scutcher, with more tearing-power than any other combination of iron teeth.
wool-seller n.
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a1598 D. Fergusson Sc. Prov. (1641) sig. A4 A woole seller kens a woole buyer.
wool-slubber n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 9 The wool slubber,..after a visit to the beer~shop, resumes his task with violence.
wool-washer n.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 955/2 ‘Smith's’ wool washer.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 51 No wool-washer ought to allow his suds to run away in the form they leave the bowls.
wool-wearer n.
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1553 W. Turner in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. iv. 49 Whereas there sitteth but seven or eight linnen~wearing bishops..in the convocation-house, if there be threescore pastors and elders, they are woolwearers.
wool-weaver n.
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 506/2 Lanarius,..a wooll weauer.
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 219 Wollewebsteres and weueres of lynnen.
wool-weigher n.
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a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) vi. 123 (Illustr.) The word..is by the Scholiast expounded so, by Lani-pendia (a wool-weigher).
b.
wool-bearing n.
wool-broking n.
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1871 W. Reid Sheep Contents p. vii Woolbroking advantageous to the Grower.
wool-bundling adj.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-bundling Machine.
wool-burring adj.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wool-burring Machine, a machine for picking the burs from wool.
wool-classing n.
ΚΠ
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. xi. 176 A natural aptitude for wool-classing.
wool-cleaning adj.
ΚΠ
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2815 (caption to figure) Wool-cleaning machine.
wool-growing adj.
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1847–54 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Wool-growing, a., producing sheep and wool.
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 42 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Wool-growing would be profitable if it were not for ravenous dogs.
wool-picking adj.
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1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 56 The wife was at a neighbour's on a ‘wool-picking frolic,’ which is a merry-meeting of gossips..to pick the year's wool and prepare it for carding.
wool-printing n.
wool-producing adj.
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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 186 A wool-producing breed.
wool-rearing adj.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 19 Feb. 10/1 A large wool-rearing district.
wool-scouring n.
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1860 S. Jubb Hist. Shoddy-trade 60 Wool-scouring..has become general, as regards fine foreign and colonial wools.
wool-washing n.
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1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted (ed. 2) 38 So much has been heard..of the superior wool-washing in Verviers.
C3. Instrumental, similative, and parasynthetic.
a.
wool-backed adj.
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1907 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 13/2 Soft wool-backed satin.
wool-fringed adj.
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1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge x, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 822/1 The heavy clouds..had..settled down in a black, wool-fringed bank.
wool-laden adj.
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1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer I. xii,. 199 The teams wool-laden departed.
wool-lined adj.
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1824 E. Weeton Let. 22 May (1969) II. 270 My wool-lined beaver gloves.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 43 He then told me to put on my wool-lined rubber boots.
wool-o'erburdened adj.
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1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence 47 The Wool-ore-burthened sheep.
wool-white adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as other typical things
swan-white1393
paper-whitec1430
ice-white1641
pearl white1779
lint-white1794
wool-white1819
fish belly1878
wax-white1883
1819 P. B. Shelley Rosalind & Helen 56 The hissing frankincense, Whose smoke, wool-white as ocean foam, Hung in dense flocks beneath the dome.
1848 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 281 Thick wool-white fog.
wool-woofed adj.
ΚΠ
1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 37 A sacred tripod..Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft Wool-woofed carpets.
wool-woven adj.
ΚΠ
1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 198 No more: off with—down he dings His bleachèd both and woolwoven wear.
b.
wool-like adj.
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1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 159 The straight hairs on the leaves disappear by cultivation, but the wool-like hairs continue on the stem.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 251 Dense bodies of white wool-like exhalations fill the deeper valleys.
C4. Special combinations.† wool-battery n. Obsolete a battery faced with woolpacks built up as a breastwork.† wool-bow n. Obsolete (see quot. and bow n.1 13).† wool-butter n. Obsolete butter used to salve the wool of sheep.† wool-craft n. Obsolete wool manufacture.† wool-folder n. Obsolete = wool-winder n.† wool-gatherer n. Obsolete one who collects wool from the flockmasters.† wool-graither n. Obsolete one who prepares wool for the manufacturer.† wool-hurdle n. Obsolete a sheep-fold.† wool-master n. Obsolete an owner of wool-producing sheep; a wool-producer.† wool-weigh n. [weigh n.1 2a] Obsolete scales for weighing wool.† wool-weigh adj. Obsolete that weighs out wool for spinning.
wool alien n. a plant introduced into a country by means of imported wool containing its seed.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > non-native or migrant
stranger1578
exotic1682
alien1847
colonizer1856
migrant1874
immigrant1880
adventive1883
pioneer1911
neophyte1916
wool alien1919
casual1926
1919 I. M. Hayward & G. C. Druce Adventive Flora Tweedside p. xxi It must not..be assumed that all the wool aliens will disappear.
1961 Proc. Bot. Soc. Brit. Isles 4 221 The party visited a railway siding in the same county, and further wool aliens were found... On enquiry he found that wool waste (‘shoddy’) was unloaded at the sidings and delivered to local farmers for use as a manure, and when this was followed up foreign weeds were found to be plentiful in their fields.
1976 B.S.B.I. News Sept. 22 J. R. Palmer searched hop fields near Wateringbury (Kent) and also found wool aliens present although no ‘shoddy’ has been used here for at least four years.
wool-ball n. (see quot.).
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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 > on particular parts of the body > ball of wool in stomach
wool-ball1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Wool-balls,..masses of Wool compacted into firm and hard balls, and found in the stomachs of sheep.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > battery
battery1555
counter-battery1603
swallow's nest1604
field battery1742
radeau1753
guns en barbette1772
half-moon battery1794
sap battery1810
sunken battery1817
screw battery1848
wool-battery1852
masked battery1861
mountain battery1868
machine-gun battery1882
1852 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 341 A large model of my wheel-barrow stanchion gun artillery, with wool battery, for raking a close column of infantry.
wool-bird n. slang a lamb.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb
lambc725
yean1408
lambkin1579
baa-lamb1599
eanling1600
lambling1605
yeanlinga1644
sheepling1654
wool-bird1825
baa-ling1853
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 156 The wing of a wool bird [= shoulder of lamb].
wool-blind adj. Australian and New Zealand (of a sheep) having its sight obscured by its growth of wool; also elliptical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [adjective] > of sheep: blinded by wool covering eyes
wool-blind1933
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > of sheep: blindness due to wool covering eyes > wool-blind sheep
wool-blind1933
1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 14 Oct. 15/7 Eye-clip, to cut the wool away from round a sheep's eyes. If this is not done, the wool, especially on merinos, is apt to grow over the eyes and make the sheep wool-blind. Some people speak of eye-clipping as Winking.
1953 B. Stronach Musterer on Molesworth viii. 54 Our next job was to eye clip the lambs, for many of them were wool-blind.
1955 J. Morrison in B. James Austral. Short Stories (1963) 158 Worse than pushing a mob of wool-blinds up the ramp of a shearing shed.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 37 The wig is removed with all the wool during shearing..because, if it is not done, the sheep may become ‘wool-blind’ before shearing time.
wool-blindness n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > of sheep: blindness due to wool covering eyes
wool-blindness1950
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 349/3 Through eye clipping, wool blindness is avoided.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > equipment > other
foot stock1565
stamper1688
wool-bow1688
bason1728
stall-board1745
satin wire1834
hurdle1837
planking machine1875
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 291/1 Wool-Bow,..an Instrument by which Wool is rent and torn and beaten very fine,..before it can be worked into Hats.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > substance with which to salve wool
wool-oil1545
wool-butter1600
1600 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 352/2 Reddendo..barrellam butiri liewollbutter.
wool church n. one of the English churches built or modified out of the wealth produced by the Tudor wool trade.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > built from wealth produced by wool trade
wool church1936
1936 M. Allis Eng. Prelude xxxiii. 252 Long Melford..with the stately ‘wool’ church, a miracle of lace in stone and flint.
1950 H. J. Massingham Curious Traveller ix. 175 Wild nature is the architect in Pembrokeshire and the massive castles..bear the same architectural relation to cliff and mountain as..the wool-churches of the Cotswolds.
1976 Cambridge Independent Press 16 Dec. i. 3/5 An interesting talk, illustrated with coloured slides, on the wool churches of East Anglia was given.
wool clip n. = clip n.2 2b.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > quantity of wool shorn
fleecec1460
clipa1825
wool clip1862
1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 131 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 39) V The wool-clip of New England commands a ready cash market in Boston.
1893 Times 18 July 2/6 The wool-clip of the year throughout Australia.
1977 Weekly Times (Melbourne) 19 Jan. 3/4 The Corporation had put proposals to the Minister for Primary Industry..to acquire the export portion of the Australian wool clip.
1984 N.Z. Farmer 12 Apr. 12/1 The wool clip never strayed far from about 5kg per sheep wintered.
1984 Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Britain iii. 160 Their reserves of liquid capital enabled Italian companies to offer attractive terms. They could not only buy an abbey's entire wool clip for the current year; they could also buy it for years in advance.
wool-clipper n. a clipper for carrying wool.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > trading vessel > cargo vessel > [noun] > carrying wool
wooller1482
wool-clipper1903
1903 C. Protheroe Life in Mercantile Marine 4 The Chatto was a full-rigged ship of a thousand odd tons, in reality a wool-clipper, but being winter time, she was now loaded with tallow and grain.
1924 J. Masefield Sard Harker 37 The wool~clippers and big four-masters were being squeezed out.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > [noun] > woollen manufacture
wool-crafta1387
wool-workc1475
woollen-work1483
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 297 Pallas..fonde vp meny craftes, and specialliche wolcraft [L. lanificium].
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xv. xliv. 750 Þis ilond [sc. Cos] was first yhiȝt with wolle crafte.
wool-driver n. one who buys wool from a sheep-owner to sell it in the market or to manufacturers.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns
mercerc1230
clothier1362
draper1362
woolman1390
yarn-chopper1429
line-draper1436
Welsh drapera1525
telerc1540
purple-seller1547
linen-draper1549
staplera1552
silkman1553
woollen-draper1554
wool-driver1555
woolster1577
linener1616
woolner1619
linen-man1631
ragman1649
rag merchant1665
slop-seller1665
bodice-seller1672
piece-broker1697
wool-stapler1709
cloth-man1723
Manchester-man1755
fleece-merchanta1774
rag dealer1777
man's mercer1789
keelman1821
man-mercer1837
cotton-broker1849
slopper1854
shoddyite1865
costumier1886
cotton-man1906
1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 13 Yf..the said Wooll~dryver shall sell his sayd Woolles at any other place forthe..of Halyfaxe.
1775 W. Donaldson Agric. 111 The wool~drivers, or owlers, are the only persons who profit by their necessities.
wool-dyed adj. dyed ‘in the wool’ (see 1g (c)).
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > process or technique
woaded1579
galled1581
overdyeda1616
wool-dyed1832
piece-dyed1841
chromed1876
yarn-dyed1885
yūzen1902
box-coloured1903
tie-dyed1903
after-chrome1904
batik1914
vat-dyed1946
premetallized1949
spun-dyed1955
spin-dyed1963
1832 Niles' Weekly Reg. 43 65/2 Messrs. Randolf and Ritchie who are chiefs of the ‘wool-dyed democrats’ of the present day.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 97 The distinction between ‘wool-dyed’ cloth and ‘piece-dyed’ cloth.
1904 Charlotte (N. Carolina) Observer 19 June 2 Higginson is one of the old abolition gang, is wool-dyed and blind.
wool-fat n. (a) = suint n.; (b) = lanolin n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > oily matter in
yolkiness1807
grease1835
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
wool-wax1911
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 > lanolin in
yolk1767
suint1791
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
1875 Chem. News 15 Jan. 26/2 The question as to the composition of wool-fat could not be fully solved.
1891 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 10 709/1 An Improved Manufacture of Saponifiable Fatty Matter from Wool-Fat.
wool-flock n. coarse, inferior wool.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > coarse or inferior
wool-flock1555
livery1749
1555 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 451 A newe charter..by the whiche they have the forfaictures of woll flocks.
1662 Act 14 Chas. II c. 18 §1 Whereas..great quantities of Wooll Woolfels..Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks..are secretly exported.
1904 Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 7/2 We would not object if Parliament forbade the sale of wool-flock as bedding material.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > one who packs up wool
wool-winder?1523
presser1549
wool-folder1550
1550 Proclam. Wyndyng of Wolles (single sheet) (verso) No grower..or gatherer of any wolles..shall..set a worke any wollefolder, or wollewynder to folde or wynde his..wolle or wolles, vnlesse [etc.].
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > collector from flockmasters
wool-gatherer1482
1482 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 102 Aull wholl getherars wher sent for be wryt.
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 7 §1 The corrupt practises of diverse..Woolgatherers and Regrators.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > other processes > one who
wool-graitherc1420
c1420 Pref. Ep. Jerome vi, in Wycliffite Bible (1850) I. 67 Wulle graithers and fullers.
wool-grass n. name for various grasses or grass-like plants having woolly spikelets, as the American Scirpus cyperinus ( S. eriophorum) and the European Erianthus ravennæ.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass
windlestrawc1000
shear-grass1483
risp1508
sweet-grass1577
star grass1687
reesk1735
bluegrass1751
cheat1784
spear-grass1784
white top1803
prairie grass1812
elephant grass1832
ryegrass1845
wool-grass1854
snow-grass1865
quick1896
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 331 The arching and sheaf-like top of the wool-grass.
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 501 Scirpus Eriphorum, Michx. (Wool-Grass.)
wool-grease n. = suint n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > oily matter in
yolkiness1807
grease1835
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
wool-wax1911
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 > lanolin in
yolk1767
suint1791
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
1875 Chem. News 15 Jan. 26/2 We have..examined two fresh kinds of wool-grease.
1891 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 10 709/1 Acids generally used in the recovery of wool grease from the waste water from wool washing and combing factories.
wool hat n. (a) a hat made of coarse wool; †(b) U.S. a supporter of the Democratic Party (obsolete); (c) U.S. a small farmer, or an unsophisticated or conservative countryman, from the South; also (senses (b) and (c)) wool hat boy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > small farmer
wool hat1794
smallholder1800
cockatoo1844
cockatoo farmer1844
cockatooer1852
cocky1868
yardland-holder1890
yardlander1891
minifundista1969
society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Democratic Party > member or adherent of
Demo1794
wool hat1794
democrat1798
Dem1806
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > woollen
wool hat1794
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > of a specific country > American
wool hat1794
redneck1830
swamp Yankee1941
1794 T. Coxe View U.S.A. 314 Wool hats, of Winchester make, are in much repute.
1828 Western Intelligencer (Hamilton, Ohio) 3 Oct. 3/1 Thus has Mr. Woods endeavored to gain the votes of the wool hats as he terms his Jackson friends in Washington.
1836 Western Hemisphere (Columbus, Ohio) 3 Aug. 1/7 The very men whom a few years ago they called the ‘ragged wool hat boys’ and ‘Tories’, they are now seeking to attach to their [Whig] party!!
1856 Encycl. Brit. XI. 240/2 Wool hats are made entirely of coarse native wool and hair stiffened with glue. Before the emancipation act these hats were largely exported for negroes' wear.
1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 159 An old ‘wool-hat’ came along with a cart drawn by a single ox.
1898 B. H. Young Hist. Jessamine County, Kentucky 163 They made wool hats.
1927 K. Eubank Horse & Buggy Days 170 I was a smart boy from town, and this particular guy thought I was a wool-hat boy.
1942 J. A. Rice I came out of Eighteenth Cent. ii. 95 South Carolinians liked their hatred to be personal, and the ‘Wool Hat Boys’ whooped with delight when Tillman ripped the hide off the ‘Columbia Ring’ and the Charlestonian gentlemen.
1942 Time 21 Sept. 19/3 Georgia's ‘wool-hat’ boys (small farmers).
1960 Spectator 2 Sept. 332 The ‘wool-hats’ (i.e. dyed-in-the-wool segregationists) of the rural Tobacco Roads who fear negro competition.
1980 Washington Star 29 Sept. a13/5 Carter knows that when..Eugene Talmadge shouted about ‘state's rights’, the ‘woolhats’ of Georgia knew what he was saying.
wool-hole n. Printing also Printers' slang (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 814 Wool hole, a place boxed off sometimes under a stair case, or in any situation where the dust will not affect the press room,..in which the wool is carded wherewith to make the balls.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 814 Wool hole, the workhouse. When a compositor or pressman is reduced by age or illness to take refuge in the workhouse, it is said he is in the Wool Hole.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen
sheepfolda1430
caul1483
boughta1522
sheep-garth1570
wool-hurdle1586
barkary?1592
sheep-pen1649
ovil1674
night-lair1688
turnip-tray1805
sheep-ree1817
stow1856
dead-fold1897
sheep-camp1911
check-pen1922
1586 Praise of Musicke vi. 76 When he hears his maids either at ye woolhurdle, or the milking pail.
wool king n. Australian and New Zealand colloquial a wealthy or large-scale sheep farmer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer
sheep-mastera1520
wool-master?1552
sheepman1591
tup-man1790
flock-master1798
sheep-farmer1805
tup-breeder1831
squatter1840
pastoralist1879
sheep-walker1885
wool king1889
wool-owner1894
sheep cocky1949
1889 G. R. Hart Stray Leaves from Early Hist. Canterbury iii. 19 Founders of the present race of wool kings in many parts of Canterbury.
a1922 H. Lawson in Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 156 These are men who died to make the Wool-Kings rich.
woolmark n. = sheep-mark n.; (with capital initial) an international quality symbol for wool instituted by the International Wool Secretariat; also transferred.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > marking of sheep > mark
earmarka1500
raddle-mark?1523
sheep-markc1534
sheep-brand1586
woolmark1603
bottea1642
pitch-mark1649
smota1672
smit1828
society > communication > indication > marking > mark of quality > [noun]
stamp1542
hallmark1852
star1870
Kitemark1952
woolmark1964
rosette1966
CE1988
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 56–7 As many as they can finde by the eare marke, for woolle markes is vsed but of few.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 93 It is in your power to follow your strayed stock, and claim it any~where by the wool-mark.
1964 Wool Future Sept. 1/1 Woolmark, the international quality symbol for pure new wool, will be seen in British and Irish shops for the first time this month.
1980 Times 8 July 10/5 To get the Woolmark seal of approval you can only have a minute percentage of gorse..or whatever still stuck on the yarn.
1983 D. Dunnett Dolly & Bird of Paradise xi. 141 One or two sheep..with no barbed wire in sight to ruffle their gorgeous Woolmark.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer
sheep-mastera1520
wool-master?1552
sheepman1591
tup-man1790
flock-master1798
sheep-farmer1805
tup-breeder1831
squatter1840
pastoralist1879
sheep-walker1885
wool king1889
wool-owner1894
sheep cocky1949
?1552 Certayne Causes Decaye Eng. sig. Bijv Refusyng none, but onely them yt hath al this aboundaunce, that is to saye, shepe or woll masters and inclosers.
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) ii. ix. 110 Our cloathiers combine against the wooll-masters, and keep their spinners but just alive.
1905 New Mills Cloth Manufactory Introd. p. lxxx The woolmasters secured a small advantage.
wool-mill n. = willy n.1 3.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > separating or cleaning > separating or cleaning with machine > machine
picker1795
wool-mill1819
blowing-machine1835
willow1835
willy1835
twilly1858
blower1867
wilger1871
shake willey1875
wolf1875
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVIII. at Woollen Manufacture The wool for coarse goods is passed several times through the wool~mill.
1835 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. (new ed.) 176 The Woolmill, (commonly called the Devil).
wool-moth n. the clothes-moth, Tinea sarcitella.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > clothes-moth > tinea sarcitella
wool-moth1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 887 The wool-moth then takes up its residence, in summer, amongst such fleeces.
wool-needle n. a blunt needle used for wool-work.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > needle > types of
pack-needle1327
packing needle1597
Whitechapel needle1737
quadrille1818
blunt1833
sharps1834
darning-needle1848
between1849
ground-down1862
straw1862
darner1882
wool-needle1882
stocking needle1886
swing needle1954
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 522 Wool Needles..are short and thick, with blunt points, and long eyes, like those of darning needles.
wool-nipping n. a portion of wool nipped off a sheep in branding.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 83 Course Wool-nippings and Tarry Pitch-marks..having great virtue in them.
1760 R. Brown Compl. Farmer: Pt. 2 68 Wool-nippings..are beneficial for lands.
wool-oil n. †(a) oil used to salve the wool of sheep; (b) = lanolin n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > substance with which to salve wool
wool-oil1545
wool-butter1600
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals > other animal grease
wool-oil1545
foot seam1584
marrowfat1717
bone fat1791
lanolin1885
lard stearin1885
1545 Rates Custome House sig. dj Woll oyle called trane the tonne.
a1585 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1914) XXIX. 519 All our wolle oyles and swete oyles.
wool-owner n. a sheep-owner.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep-farmer
sheep-mastera1520
wool-master?1552
sheepman1591
tup-man1790
flock-master1798
sheep-farmer1805
tup-breeder1831
squatter1840
pastoralist1879
sheep-walker1885
wool king1889
wool-owner1894
sheep cocky1949
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 225 Wildrake came down with Mr. Craven and the other wool owners.
wool-pated adj. woolly-headed.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > frizzy > having
wool-pated1703
woolly-headed1708
woolly1767
Brillo-headed1969
1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 27 The Inhabitants of this Island..are all Negro's, Wool-pated like their African-Neighbours.
wool-plant n. ? = mullein n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > mullein
feltwortc1000
verbascumOE
Thapsusa1400
mullein?a1425
hag taper1526
high-taper1526
tapsebarbe1526
lungwort1538
torch1552
moth mullein1578
wolleyn1578
woollen1578
hedge-taper1579
wool-blade1585
bullock's lungwort1597
candlewick mullein1597
mullet1597
torch-herb1598
taperwort1601
torchwort1647
Jupiter's staff1664
cow's lungwort1777
shepherd's club1790
woollens1800
flannel-leaf1821
Adam's flannel1828
flannel-plant1849
king's taper1858
torch-blade1861
velvet-dock1863
Jacob's staff1879
shepherd's staff1882
wool-plant1883
shepherd's gourd1896
1883 R. Browning Jochanan Hakkadosh 18 Hairs silk-soft, silver-white, Such as the wool-plant's.
wool-press n. a press used in packing wool.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > wool-press
wool-press1846
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > press
wool-screw1827
wool-press1846
spade-press1890
1846 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 21 Dec. (MS., Alexander Turnbull Libr., Wellington, N.Z.) 67 Employed all day at Watarangi assisting in packing fleeces. George making wool press.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxxiv I dreamed..that the devil had got me under the wool-press, screwing me down as hard as he could.
wool presser n. one who operates a wool press.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > wool-press > one who operates
wool presser1892
1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 96 There is..the wool presser and his mate to bale up the wool.
wool-pulling n. (a) the removal of wool from a sheepskin; (b) the act of pulling the wool over a person's eyes; deception.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [noun] > action or practice of deceiving
swikingc1000
blindfolding?c1225
deceivancec1330
trechettingc1330
jugglingc1380
beguilingc1400
deceivingc1400
fagec1400
delusionc1420
sophisticationc1450
circumvention1534
illudinga1547
cheateryc1555
cheatingc1555
crossing1592
tricking1595
wiling?a1600
circumventing1603
practice1622
cheat1641
deluding1645
underdealing1649
amusement1658
conveyancing1676
bubbling1700
jockeyshipa1763
overreachinga1774
jockeying1779
beguilement1805
gaggery1819
trickstering1821
Jewing1842
wool-pulling1843
rigging1846
hoodwinking1858
old soldierism1866
old soldiering1867
fiddling1884
gold-bricking1901
wangling1911
finagling1926
hyping1968
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pulling wool from sheepskin
wool-pulling1843
1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 16 In short, I'm up to the whole ‘wool pulling’ system.
1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/2 A high duty on wool makes it cheaper to have the ‘wool-pulling’ done in England, and let the skins come to us as our raw material.
1971 D. Bagley Freedom Trap iii. 59 I was given permission to start correspondence courses... It was all a bit of wool-pulling to make them think Rearden was reconciled to his fate.
wool-scour n. Australian a large shed where wool is washed.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > cleaning wool > place where wool is washed
wool-scour1911
1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xi. 101 The wool..goes on to be washed by machinery in a second big shed, the wool-scour, so as to get the grease and dirt out of it.
wool-screw n. a wool-press.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > press
wool-screw1827
wool-press1846
spade-press1890
1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. iii. 82 Wooden wool-screw.
wool-shear n. now only plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > hand-shears
wool-shear1643
sheep-shears1688
wool-shearers1809
jingling Johnny1904
blade1905
1643 Orkney Witch Trial in Abbotsford Club Misc. I. 184 I took ane seif and..set ane cogge full of water in the seive, and then laid ane woll scheir on the coggis mouth.
1831 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. (ed. 2) 373 The wool-shears are..worked with one hand.
wool-shears n. shears used for shearing sheep; also †wool-shearers.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > hand-shears
wool-shear1643
sheep-shears1688
wool-shearers1809
jingling Johnny1904
blade1905
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 414 A Lad..was wounded in the abdomen by a pair of wool-shearers.
wool-shed n. Australian and New Zealand the large building at a sheep-station in which the shearing and woolpacking are done.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed
wool-shed1846
shed1855
shearing-shed1857
open shed1871
1846 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 11 Dec. (MS., Alexander Turnbull Libr., Wellington, N.Z.) 67 Counted rams after breakfast. George finished washing penn at river with Robin and Teddy and self to wool shed at Watarangi and finished the same.
1850 J. B. Clutterbuck Port Phillip II. 23 In some instances the flood has swept away the wool-sheds.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xxiii Backed by huts, sheep-yards, a wool~shed, and the usual concomitants of a flourishing Australian sheep station.
1977 N.Z. Herald 8 Jan. iv. 7/7 (advt.) Four-brm home, 3-stand woolshed, barn, yards, airstrip.
wool-sorter n. a sorter of wool; wool-sorters' disease, anthrax, also known as splenic fever.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > one who sorts wool
sorter1554
wool-sorter1834
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > anthrax
anthrax1789
malignant pustule1850
splenic fever1867
wool-sorters' disease1880
joint-ill1893
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 411/2 Merchants in Sydney, some of whom employ wool-sorters of their own to assort and repack it for the London market.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iii. 97 If the wool-sorter be out of practice for any considerable time, his fingers lose the delicacy of touch indispensable to his occupation.
1880 Daily Tel. 10 Dec. 3/8 Henry Slater has died here from ‘woolsorter's disease’.
wool-sorting n.
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1858 E. Baines in T. Baines Yorks. Past & Present (1875) I. 653 The wool sorting done by the proprietors themselves.
wool-spinner n. (a) a workman who spins wool; (b) a species of mussel (see quot. 1815).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > one who > spins wool
wool-spinner1815
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Mytilidae > genus Mytilus > member of
wool-spinner1815
kuku1905
1815 S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 157 Woolspinner, Mytilus discors.
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 208 In proportion, however, to his taciturnity was the loquaciousness of a woolspinner.
wool-spinning n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > specific material
spinning1753
wool-spinning1821
wet spinning1864
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xii. 119 Superintending..a great wool-spinning we then had.
wool-sponge n. U.S. a variety of bath-sponge.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > specific types > spongia equina (velvet sponge)
sheep-wool1851
boat sponge1854
wool-sponge1879
velvet sponge1882
sheep's wool1883
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > cloth, sponge, etc., used in bathing
bath-cloth1618
vegetable sponge1837
loof1865
wool-sponge1879
loofah1887
bath-sponge1889
bath-brush1895
1879 P. L. Simmonds Comm. Products Sea 159 The [American] grades are glove sponge..wool sponge..and yellow and hard head.
wool-stock n. a heavy wooden hammer used in fulling cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > fulling > mallet or staff
perchc1300
perka1425
waulk-stock1434
millstock1546
waulking-staff1678
wool-stock1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Wool-stocks, heavy wooden hammers for milling cloth, or driving the threads of the web together.
wool table n. Australian and New Zealand (see quot. 1965).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > shearing-shed > table
rolling table1749
table screen1800
table1829
wool table1865
1865 M. A. Barker Let. 1 Dec. in Station Life N.Z. (1870) 32 We next inspected the wool tables, to which two boys were incessantly bringing armfuls of rolled-up fleeces.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 310/2 The scrubbing of the shearing board and the wool table is an essential practice.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 40 Wool table, a table of spaced ridged lateral slats on which the fleece is rolled and skirted and the pieces picked. Any loose locks fall through to be picked up.
wool team n. Australian and New Zealand a team of draught animals for transporting wool.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > work animals > draught animal > team of > for transporting wool
wool team1865
1865 R. Henning Let. 18 Feb. (1952) 82/3 Biddulph..has sent both the bullock-drivers to the Port with the wool-teams.
1959 H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker v. 41/2 Yarragrin..was also famous as a camp for the wool-teams, coming in from the north-west.
wool-thistle n. = woolly-headed thistle n. at thistle n. Compounds 1.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles
thistlec725
carduea1398
wolf's-thistlea1400
cardoona1425
wolf-thistle1526
cotton-thistle1548
gum-thistle1548
oat thistle1548
black chameleon1551
ixia1551
Saint Mary thistle1552
milk thistle1562
cow-thistle1565
bedeguar1578
carline1578
silver thistle1578
white chameleon1578
globe thistle1582
ball thistle1597
down thistle1597
friar's crown1597
lady's thistle1597
gummy thistle1598
man's blood1601
musk thistle1633
melancholy thistle1653
Scotch thistle1660
boar-thistle1714
spear- thistle1753
gentle thistle1760
woolly thistle1760
wool-thistle1769
bur-thistlea1796
Canada thistle1796
pine thistle1807
plume thistle1814
melancholy plume thistle1825
woolly-headed thistle1843
dog thistle1845
dwarf thistle1846
welted thistle1846
pixie glove1858
Mexican thistle1866
Syrian thistle1866
bull thistle1878
fish belly1878
fish-bone-thistle1882
green thistle1882
herringbone thistle1884
Californian thistle1891
winged thistle1915
fish-thistles-
1769 J. Hill Herbarium Britannicum Wool-thistle.
wool-track n. Australian a track along which wool was conveyed to a port.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > along which peat or wool conveyed
peat road1802
wool-track1903
1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life vi. 248 These wool-tracks, that knew him so well, will know him no more again for ever.
1959 J. Wright Generations of Men (1960) xvii. 217 They followed a line through the trees that led southward across the road, once an important wool-track to the coastal ports.
wool-tree n. any species of Eriodendron.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > silk-cotton trees
gossipine1589
gossampine1601
cotton tree1670
god tree1681
silk-cotton tree1712
kapok1735
semul1809
ceiba1810
wool-tree1831
bombax1834
munguba1863
cabbage wood1885
1831 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants I. 512 Eriodendron leiantherum..Smooth-anthered Wool-tree.
wool-wax n. (a) = suint n.; (b) = lanolin n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > oily matter in
yolkiness1807
grease1835
wool-fat1875
wool-grease1875
wool-wax1911
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment > specific
eye salveeOE
diachylon1313
populeona1398
euphorbinec1400
marciaton?a1425
nerval?c1450
basilicon?1541
pilgrim-salvec1580
nerve oil1592
apostles' ointment1721
blue ointment1721
yellow basilicon1746
Kalydor1824
blue butter1838
Holloway's ointment1838
lip balm1853
chapstick1891
wool-wax1911
barrier cream1950
1911 Encycl. Brit. XX. 51/2 An exceptional position [among animal waxes] is occupied by wool wax, the main constituent of the natural wool fat which covers the hair of sheep... Wool fat is now being purified on a large scale and brought into commerce, under the name of lanolin, as an ointment.
1943 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VI. 135/2 Wool grease (wool fat..) is the crude mixture of wool wax and fatty acids recovered from the soapy liquor used for the scouring of raw wool.
1943 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VI. 135/2 Crude wool grease is used as a lubricant..; some is refined for use as ‘lanolin’ (pure wool wax) in..cosmetics,..rust preventives, etc.
1954 C. J. Boner Lubricating Greases iv. 149 Wool wax is ordinarily sold under the name of degras or wool grease.
1956 Nature 10 Mar. 470/1 Further work was carried out..on the formation of polyacrylonitrile in wool and on suint and wool wax.
1964 N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. xvii. 340 Wool wax occurs to the extent of 20 to 30 per cent in raw sheep's wool.
1966 R. J. Gettens & G. L. Stout Painting Materials 81 Wool Wax..is the natural grease from the fleece of sheep.
wool-weed n. any species of Eriocaulon (pipewort).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1765 J. Hill Veg. Syst. X. 26 (heading) Woollweed. Eriocaulon.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > other processes > equipment for
wool-weighc1100
raving fat1555
plucker1794
sheeter1853
condenser1862
fugal1895
c1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 148/21 Campana, wulwæga.
1533 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 451 Ane pair of woll weyiss, ane pair of ballendis of brass, [etc.].
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [adjective]
wool-weigha1661
wool-carding1880
a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) vi. 100 Illustr. 123 Wo to the Wool~weigh-maide.
wool-wheel n. a wheel for spinning wool.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > spinning wheel > types of
wool-wheel1630
girdle-wheel1688
high wheel1836
tow-wheel1900
1630 in Ramsay Bamff Charters (1915) 223 Ane woll qwheill.
a1806 J. Thomson Poems (1894) 233 A gude woo' wheel, my wife to spin on.
1865 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers iv A woman stands at the great wool~wheel, one arm extended, the other holding the thread.
wool-witted adj. woolly-minded.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]
sloweOE
stuntc960
dullOE
hardOE
stuntlyc1000
sotc1050
dillc1175
dulta1225
simplea1325
heavy1340
astonedc1374
sheepishc1380
dull-witteda1387
lourd1390
steerishc1411
ass-likea1425
brainless?a1439
deafc1440
sluggishc1450
short-witted1477
obtuse1509
peakish1519
wearish1519
deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520
doileda1522
gross1526
headlessa1530
stulty1532
ass-headed1533
pot-headed1533
stupid?1541
sheep's head1542
doltish1543
dumpish1545
assish1548
blockish1548
slow-witted1548
blockheaded1549
surd1551
dull-headed1552
hammer-headed1552
skit-brained?1553
buzzardly1561
witless1562
log-headeda1566
assy1566
sottish1566
dastardly1567
stupidious1567
beetle-headed1570
calvish1570
bluntish1578
cod's-headed1578
grout-headed1578
bedaft1579
dull-pated1580
blate1581
buzzard-like1581
long-eared1582
dullard1583
woodena1586
duncical1588
leaden-headed1589
buzzard1592
dorbellical1592
dunstical1592
heavy-headeda1593
shallow-brained1592
blunt-witted1594
mossy1597
Bœotian1598
clay-brained1598
fat1598
fat-witted1598
knotty-pated1598
stupidous1598
wit-lost1599
barren1600
duncifiedc1600
lourdish1600
stockish1600
thick1600
booby1603
leaden-pated1603
partless1603
thin-headed1603
leaden-skulledc1604
blockhead1606
frost-brained1606
ram-headed1608
beef-witted1609
insulse1609
leaden-spirited1609
asininec1610
clumse1611
blockheadly1612
wattle-headed1613
flata1616
logger-headeda1616
puppy-headeda1616
shallow-patedc1616
thick-brained1619
half-headed1621
buzzard-blinda1625
beef-brained1628
toom-headed1629
thick-witted1634
woollen-witted1635
squirrel-headed1637
clod-pated1639
lean-souled1639
muddy-headed1642
leaden-witteda1645
as sad as any mallet1645
under-headed1646
fat-headed1647
half-witted1647
insipid1651
insulsate1652
soft-headed1653
thick-skulleda1657
muddish1658
non-intelligent1659
whey-brained1660
sap-headed1665
timber-headed1666
leather-headeda1668
out of (one's) tree1669
boobily1673
thoughtless1673
lourdly1674
logger1675
unintelligenta1676
Bœotic1678
chicken-brained1678
under-witted1683
loggerhead1684
dunderheaded1692
unintelligible1694
buffle-headed1697
crassicc1700
numbskulled1707
crassous1708
doddy-polled1708
haggis-headed1715
niddy-noddy1722
muzzy1723
pudding-headed1726
sumphish1728
pitcher-souleda1739
duncey1743
hebete1743
chuckheaded1756
dumb1756
duncely1757
imbecile1766
mutton-headed1768
chuckle-headed1770
jobbernowl1770
dowfarta1774
boobyish1778
wittol1780
staumrel1787
opaquec1789
stoopid1791
mud-headed1793
borné1795
muzzy-headed1798
nog-headed1800
thick-headed1801
gypit1804
duncish1805
lightweight1809
numbskull1814
tup-headed1816
chuckle-pate1820
unintellectuala1821
dense1822
ninnyish1822
dunch1825
fozy1825
potato-headed1826
beef-headed1828
donkeyish1831
blockheadish1833
pinheaded1837
squirrel-minded1837
pumpkin-headed1838
tomfoolish1838
dundering1840
chicken-headed1842
like a bump on a log1842
ninny-minded1849
numbheadeda1852
nincompoopish1852
suet-brained1852
dolly1853
mullet-headed1853
sodden1853
fiddle-headed1854
numb1854
bovine1855
logy1859
crass1861
unsmart1861
off his chump1864
wooden-headed1865
stupe1866
lean-minded1867
duffing1869
cretinous1871
doddering1871
thick-head1873
doddling1874
stupido1879
boneheaded1883
woolly-headed1883
leaden-natured1889
suet-headed1890
sam-sodden1891
dopey1896
turnip-headed1898
bonehead1903
wool-witted1905
peanut-headed1906
peanut-brained1907
dilly1909
torpid-minded1909
retardate1912
nitwitted1917
meat-headed1918
mug1922
cloth-headed1925
loopy1925
nitwit1928
lame-brained1929
dead from the neck up1930
simpy1932
nail-headed1936
square-headed1936
dingbats1937
pinhead1939
dim-witted1940
pea-brained1942
clueless1943
lobotomized1943
retarded1949
pointy-headed1950
clottish1952
like a stunned mullet1953
silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954
out to lunch1955
pin-brained1958
dozy1959
eejity1964
out of one's tiny mind1965
doofus1967
twitty1967
twittish1969
twatty1975
twattish1976
blur1977
dof1979
goofus1981
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
numpty1992
cockish1996
1905 A. T. Sheppard Red Cravat i. i. 12 A belated Mastodon, stumbling from some old German forest..would have caused little more sensation among the wool-witted villagers.
wool-yarn n. yarn spun from wool; spec. (see quot. 1863).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > thread or yarn > [noun] > woollen
wool-yarn1429
1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 360/2 Grete quantite of fyne Wolle yerne.
1556 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 88 To Jenet my doghter, all my wolle and wolle yarne.
1863 J. Watson Theory & Pract. Weaving 39 Wool yarn is spun from the short fibres of the fleece.., and Worsted yarn from the long staple.
Draft additions June 2008
wool jobbing n. now historical the practice of buying and reselling wool for profit.
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1606 R. Bowyer Diary 1 May in Parl. Diary (1931) 141 Sir Edw[ard] Hobby brought his Councell to the Barr to shew Cause why certaine Letters Patents made unto him for Wooll jobbing and brogging, should be no Grievance.
1753 J. Smith Rev. Manufacturer's Complaint against Wool Grower II. 25 The business of Wool Jobbing is a Matter of Dispute in this Kingdom, old as the Manufacture itself.
1829 S. Gibbon Recoll. 18 Foolish Denis Kelly and his wool-jobbing at Ballinasloe.
2005 J. A. Stratton & L. H. Mannix Mind & Hand vii. 142 He proved to be an avid salesman for a wool-jobbing firm.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
woolv.
/wʊl/, U.S. /wʊl/ 1. transitive.† a. To coat or line with wool. Obsolete.
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1660 in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. XII. 67/2 One Richard Bailey, who..is also very skilfull in the Art of Oyling of Linnen Cloath or Taffaty, or Woolling of either, so as to make it Impenetrable.
b. To stuff up with wool.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > by thrusting something in > specific
wool1883
1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda viii I feel as if some hand had woolled up my ears.
2. U.S. slang.
a. To pull the ‘wool’ or hair of (a person) in sport or (esp.) in anger.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > pull hair or clothes of
woolc1831
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight with [verb (transitive)] > pull hair of
woolc1831
c1831 A. Lincoln in H. Binns Life Lincoln (1927) 34 I never use tussle and scuffle. I don't like this wooling and pulling.
1854 Congr. Globe July 1690 I regret very much to see these two gentlemen from Illinois wooling each other in the most approved fashion.
1869 J. S. Le Fanu Wyvern Myst. I. 163 The more you and the old boy wool each other the better for Hal.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 315 Wool little Margaret's curly pate for me.
b. To ‘pull the wool over the eyes of’: see quot. 1890.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
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blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
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blenka1000
belieOE
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trokec1175
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intrigue1612
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nose-wipe1628
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nuzzlec1680
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nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Wool, to (common), to get the better of, to discomfit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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