wool
See also: Wool
English
Etymology
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊl
Noun
wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
- The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
- 2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
- A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
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- Anything with a texture like that of wool.
- 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
- The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation […]
- 1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- wool of bat and tongue of dog
- (British, 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.
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- andalusian wool
- breech wool
- burry wool
- cotton wool
- dead pulled wool
- dyed in the wool
- fleece wool
- glass wool
- ice wool
- mineral wool
- much cry and little wool
- pull the wool over somebody's eyes
- rag wool
- scoured wool
- seed wool
- Shetland wool
- shorn wool
- steel wool
- thibet wool
- virgin wool
- warm as wool
- waste of wool
- wire wool
- wool classer
- woolgathering
- wool grease
- woollen, woolen
- woolly, wooly
- wool oil
- woolpack
- woolsack
- woolwear
Descendants
- → Japanese: ウール (ūru)
Translations
hair of sheep, etc.
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cloth or yarn
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anything with a texture like that of wool
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See also
Cornish
Noun
wool
- Soft mutation of gool.
Tlingit
Noun
wool
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (wool)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
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