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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
From Middle English wolle, from Old English wull, from Proto-West Germanic *wullu, from Proto-Germanic *wullō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wĺ̥h₁neh₂.
Cognates
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /wʊl/, /wuːl/
- (General American) enPR: wo͝ol, IPA(key): /wʊl/, /wuːl/, [wʊ̠ɫ], [wɫ̩], [wəl]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊl
Noun[edit]
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.
- A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
- 2009, January 12, “Mireya Navarro”, in It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?:
- Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets.
- 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 […]
- 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
- (Britain, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
- (Liverpudlian, derogatory) A resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
Hyponyms[edit]
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- 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
- philosopher's 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[edit]
- → Japanese: ウール (ūru)
Translations[edit]
hair of sheep, etc.
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cloth or yarn
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anything with a texture like that of wool
See also[edit]
Cornish[edit]
Noun[edit]
wool
- Soft mutation of gool.
Tlingit[edit]
Noun[edit]
wool
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