(of a sheep) having wool growing over the eyes.
open-faced sheep have proved better meat producers than wool-blind ewes
Example sentencesExamples
- A wool-blind sheep may produce slightly more wool than an open-faced sheep.
- Every day I have a "bad hair day" I look anxiously from the dog to the mirror, but today I look more like a "wool-blind sheep".
- It was wool-blind and so must have been there since before Tony's visit the previous year.
- They would have to be clipped around the eyes so the lambs would not become wool blind.
- Most were wool-blind and nearly as many flyblown.