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woolled, a.|wʊld|
Forms: 5–6 wolled, Sc. wollit (6 vollit), 6– woolled, 8– (now U.S.) wooled.
[f. wool n. + -ed2.]
1. Bearing wool, covered with wool; having the wool still on, unshorn.
1425Rolls of Parlt. IV. 292/2 Many..personnes leeden oute of the Royaume..grete nombre of Shepe wolled into Flaundres. 1489Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 117/1, v aulde wollit scheip. 1513Douglas æneis iii. x. 9 The wollit scheip him followand at the bak. 1550Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Cl. 1903) I. 104 The said vollit skynnis. 1552Huloet, Wolled or wrapped in wolle, lanatus. 1890Cornh. Mag. Oct. 385 At times we find a ‘woolled one’ on the fell after a shepherds' meeting, then we just shear it. 1898Westm. Gaz. 21 Sept. 6/3 Bales of woolled sheepskins.
2. Having wool of a specified kind.
1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. 137 b, Looke, that your Ewe haue a large body, deepe woolled. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Houssu, Mouton houssu, a sheepe well woolled. 1778D. Loch Tour Scot. 20 Well adapted for..feeding the best wooled sheep. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 883/2 The best breeds of fine-woolled sheep. 1801Farmer's Mag. Jan. 74 A good long-wooled skin. 1886C. Scott Sheep-farming 183 The original sheep in most countries where improved species are now found, were invariably fine wooled.
†b. Of cloth: Having a (good) nap. Obs.
1600Surflet Country Farm ii. liii. 381 You must then couer such chafe with thicke new cloath being well woolled [Fr. bien lainu]. |