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单词 wool-fell
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wool-felln.

Brit. /ˈwʊlfɛl/, U.S. /ˈwʊlˌfɛl/
Etymology: fell n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwool-fell.
Historical.
= woolskin n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of sheep
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1422 Rolls of Parl. IV. 173/2 All sakkes of Wolle and Wolle felle yshipped by Marchants Englissh.
1543 tr. Stat. Staple 27 Edw. III c. 1 The staple of wolles, lether, wolfelles, and leade growynge and commyng forth within our sayd realme.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 41 Wooll, and Wooll-fels were euer of little value in this Kingdome.
1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses xvi. 39 To which [seat] Eumæus a Wool-fell apply'd With Rushes under it.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. viii. 304 The duties on wool, sheep-skins, or wool~fells, and leather, exported, were called custuma antiqua sive magna.
1829 R. Thomson Magna Charta 389 A half mark upon every 300 wool-fells, or undressed sheep-skins.
1888 E. Dowden Transcripts 196 Chaucer loved the woolfells and leather of the Petty Customs only because they helped to save his purse from getting light.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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