wool
IPA: wˈʊɫ
noun
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
- Anything with a texture like that of wool.
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
- (Britain, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
- (Liverpool, derogatory) A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
- A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY8486).
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Examples of "wool" in Sentences
- These people are coming in from all over the state, what we call the wool hat boys.
- Especially as one of the shiny bits that was carded into the wool is a metallic yarn wrapped over a core of something else.
- The world of commerce infused his secret war on slavery, which he called his "wool business," funded with venture capital from Northern industrialists.
- Â On top of that was some trimmed origami paper, then a square of felted wool from a sweater that I adored until the moths ate it (and it got washed – hence, felted.)
- England as to run wool to France, our ladies, by making use of wool as part of their head-dresses [_lets down the tail and takes out the wool_], keep it at home, and encourage the woollen manufactory.
- This wool is an important thing to our Scottish farmers and it is also important to you business men here in Canada, because if we in Great Britain have no market for our wool we cannot buy the modern agricultural implements which you manufacture.
- I was brought up in the cattle country of Dakota, although I was born in Manitoba (my parents moved across the line when I was young) and I know the wild cattle and horses there were less manageable than the undomesticated musk-ox; and I know from watching my mother work wool, and helping her work wool, - we were very poor, and my mother used to knit socks to sell them-I know the wool is as good as any wool.
- In many instances the authors also include a section on the techniques used by the artist, which variously includes the sourcing of raw materials such as wool from the Mixteca region of the state for making rugs and wall hangings, or clays from other regions of the state for changing tone and texture of sculptures; and processing methods including the extracting of natural dyes from fruits, plants, soils and the cochineal insect.
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