woolgathering

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From wool +‎ gathering.

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woolgathering (usually uncountable, plural woolgatherings)

  1. The gathering of fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.
  2. Indulgence in idle fancies or daydreams.
    • 1938, Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Century and seven more years, London: Faber, page 109 (1968 edition):
      [while fishing] Alone with my tin of bait and my wool-gatherings, I was in a world of my own, localized and satisfying as such world always are.

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